Re: Delphi 2008 native?


So yes, they are adding a new .Net based scripting system to Office, but they will continue to support VBA. You had me worried because I have to maintain a bunch of complex excel VBA macros. :-)
Sorry I did not want to upset you a bit.


Likewise, I think they should have kept the help system separated. They should have continued to use HTML help for the Delphi and C++ Builder IDE information, and used a whatever Microsoft supplied for a separate Win32 and/or .Net help systems. I don't see any advantage to having them integrated. A developer almost always knows which of these systems they are looking for help with, and can choose the correct one. They then get help that is on topic and without all the noise about similar functions in other modules that the integrated help system produces.
Here I have to say that CG has to comply with M$'s requirements if they want to label Delhi as made for Microsoft Windows bla bla bal...

I personally think chasing Microsoft in the .Net world was a waste of time and effort. CodeGear obviously didn't, probably because they saw some of their large customers jumping ship from Delphi to .Net. I wonder how many of those customers that they tried to woo back, or dissuade from leaving, actually returned or stayed because they added .Net support. Was it enough to offset the accumulated lost sales due to poor quality in the IDE and the help system in every version of the IDE since that change was made? Was it enough to justify the damage done to the good reputation they had built up before that decision?

I think when a person/company gets desperate for survival he/it tends to make mistakes which prove to be very costly over a period of time and Borland has been doing this since ages.

They do have a very good compiler as far as Pascal and C++ is concerned but what about other languages?

I still feel they should have developed a BASIC language compiler. In fact this is the right time to launch such a product and get success almost instantly. If you recall in the DOS world their TurboBASIC (actual compiler was borrowed from PowerBASIC if I remember right) was just superb and cut into M$'s BASIC market then. If they were successful then, why not now?

Am I smelling some kind of conspiracy between M$ and CG. Probably M$ will not touch Pascal (the reason why they withdrew their Pascal compiler all of a sudden) and CG will not touch BASIC.....


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