Re: Did Borland doing well in Q4? Listen to the Earning CC

Kostya wrote:

There was a demand from many of their customers.

Really? I thought there was a demand for Unicode
support. Not for rendering old code invalid.

That sounds so dramatic. Every new versions renders some code
"invalid", which means one must adjust the code. Oh, this one will
probably render some more code "invalid", i.e. requiring a few simple
changes.

Anyway, I don't see
this as such a big problem.

I think you being a hobby programmer are in
no position to tell that.

Here we go again: the "you're just a hobbyist" argument. You think
wrong. I can assure you I am very well in a position to tell that.

Being someone who has programmed for more than 25 years, more than 20
years in TP and, later, Delphi, I am very well in a position to tell
that. Anyway, this is just a change in the implementation of the
default string type, and not really rocket science.

Like the transition of much of my code to .NET (which is also using
unicode strings, and even immutable ones) has shown, there are a few
issues with that, but not that many. Most of them were caught by the
compiler anyway.

But hey, people here are free to keep on ranting about something they
haven't even seen or tested. <shrug>
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