Why is Delphi better than other Rapid Dev tools?
Why is Delphi better than VB, VC++, etc?
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Name a more rapid development tool than Delphi...
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>Without more context, it is difficult to offer you more than our personal opinions.
You are right, I'm very sorry.
I like Delphi over VB (my previous preffered language) for three reasons:
1. The executable outcome (no necessary libraries ;)
2. The compiled executable runs faster (about 30% according to my calculations)
3. It's Borland's (means power + extremely effective tool)
Now, I like VB a lot, it's easy, useful and gets the job done (a little slow, but works). Delphi seems great but in this stage of my life it's come to a turning point: should I move on and learn VS.net or learn Delphi?
I was hoping to get your views about Delphi assuming you would think it is better than other languages.
Thanks for your time.
Esopo.
You are right, I'm very sorry.
I like Delphi over VB (my previous preffered language) for three reasons:
1. The executable outcome (no necessary libraries ;)
2. The compiled executable runs faster (about 30% according to my calculations)
3. It's Borland's (means power + extremely effective tool)
Now, I like VB a lot, it's easy, useful and gets the job done (a little slow, but works). Delphi seems great but in this stage of my life it's come to a turning point: should I move on and learn VS.net or learn Delphi?
I was hoping to get your views about Delphi assuming you would think it is better than other languages.
Thanks for your time.
Esopo.
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BTW
Shane:
http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,15689,00.html
that article about Delphi against VB is great, is there something like that but comparing to VB.net?
Also, since we are having this talk :), what other language would be considerable to learn for Windows rapid development? (if any, I'm hoping Delphi is the best second only by VS.net)
Shane:
http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,15689,00.html
that article about Delphi against VB is great, is there something like that but comparing to VB.net?
Also, since we are having this talk :), what other language would be considerable to learn for Windows rapid development? (if any, I'm hoping Delphi is the best second only by VS.net)
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I'm only familiar with Win32 platform. Although I have access to VS.net when I saw it it looked like japanese to me, I quickly realize I was up for a whole learning experience. On those days I was playing aroun with Delphi, did some reading and liked it a lot better than Microsoft tools.
I have very little knowledge of the advantages of the .Net platform, although I have read a few articles at the Microsoft site about the advances related to VB.
Right now am developing for Win32 using both Delphi and VB6, but I understand I need to pick one if I want to be really good at it, and for what it seems I'm keeping Delphi, but I was wondering if there was something else to dig into that was better than Delphi.
C# Builder did cross my mind, but since it's Delphi's brother I was guessing there wasn't much difference except for the grammar. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Shane:
Do you have a comparative article (+ your own thoughts ;) about Delphi vs C#Bulider?
calinutz:
I'd love to hear your thoughts on Delphi vs other languages you've tried before
Also, can anyone name differences between Delphi for Win32 and Delphi for .net? (should I go for the upgrade?)
I have very little knowledge of the advantages of the .Net platform, although I have read a few articles at the Microsoft site about the advances related to VB.
Right now am developing for Win32 using both Delphi and VB6, but I understand I need to pick one if I want to be really good at it, and for what it seems I'm keeping Delphi, but I was wondering if there was something else to dig into that was better than Delphi.
C# Builder did cross my mind, but since it's Delphi's brother I was guessing there wasn't much difference except for the grammar. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Shane:
Do you have a comparative article (+ your own thoughts ;) about Delphi vs C#Bulider?
calinutz:
I'd love to hear your thoughts on Delphi vs other languages you've tried before
Also, can anyone name differences between Delphi for Win32 and Delphi for .net? (should I go for the upgrade?)
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Thanks for your insight guys, I'd still appreciate the Delphi vs C# comparasing, if you will.
I don't think your question is correct enough. It depends on what you are going to write, your experience, background and preferences, what you get used to use, etc. I can't agree that something is better than other in general. It could be just someone's opinion on that. I have used more than 10 programming languages (excluding different versions) and every one of them has had good and bad things in it from my point of view. I have been using Delphi since ver.1 because this is my personal choice. I simply feel comfortable in the Delphi environment compared to the MS IDE.
Regards, Geo