Re: Karen Said...

From: "MindShift Design" <mindshift@usa.net>

Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Carl C. Balshaw wrote in message ...
>In article <w/KP2YZiqfpL092yn@phoenyx.net>, "Karen J. Cravens"
><silver@phoenyx.net> writes
>>
>>I have never encountered Pascal at all in the Real World, so I
>>don't know if it's declined in popularity.
>>
>
>Isn't Delphi basically Pascal; though I havn't used it since version 1 but
I
>hope they havn't changed the core underlying language.

Delphi is OOP visual Pascal, and the major change from v1 (we use v3 for all
our coding and games) is that it became 32bit. They also added in some nice
new routines and code, but still retained all 16-bit compatibility and
underlying functionality and language. Also, even when you purchase the
Standard version, you get a 32 bit version of Delphi, the 16 bit version for
backwards compatibility and development, and a Delphi-focused version of
InstallShield Express for re-distributing your finished application. Version
3 also brought in native support for JPGs as well as extensions to the
Borland Database Engine that allow native driver support for MS Access
databases (a welcome addition over the use of ODBC calls to Access tables.)
They also introduced Code Insight which allows pre-emptive completion of
code elements and fragments, and is handy in the respect that you don't need
to hand-key in all the object properties that you are using; you simply use
Code Insight and select the correct property from the drop-down list
presented. Combined with a super-fast compiler and the ability to create
full complete stand-alone applications or small executables with run-time
DLLs, self-component creation, native database support, the huge range of
supported components and library files (including internet and network
support/ multi-tiered and client/server) support, connection to CORBA/MIDAS
& and middleware, full ODBC and SQL links, COM/DCOM & ActiveX, CGI/ISAPI and
full networking, internal assembler & API/SDK calls (including DirectX,
Realplayer and other 3rd party kits) and a whole host of other functions,
this is our programming language of choice. And in the Real World the choice
of many companies who require solid structured RAD code and applications. In
fact there are quite a few server backends that utilise Delphi middleware
and more than a couple of well-known products that have
been written in Delphi.

Also, Delphi is developed in Delphi. How many other languages can say that
the next version of their language was created with the previous version ?

Version 4 has just been released but is a little buggy, and we won't be
moving to it until it gets fixed... I guess Borland got too caught up in
changing their corporate name to Inprise (?!) and developing 'Enterprise
Solutions'.

Just my biased opinion on the matter.

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References

Re: Karen Said...
"Carl C. Balshaw" <Carl@balshaw.demon.co.uk>
Tue, 03 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Karen Said...
silver@phoenyx.net (Karen J. Cravens)
Sat, 31 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Karen Said...
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Sun, 01 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Karen Said...
silver@phoenyx.net (Karen J. Cravens)
Sun, 01 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Karen Said...
"Carl C. Balshaw" <Carl@balshaw.demon.co.uk>
Tue, 03 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Karen Said...
silver@phoenyx.net (Karen J. Cravens)
Sat, 31 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Karen Said...
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Sun, 01 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Karen Said...
silver@phoenyx.net (Karen J. Cravens)
Sun, 01 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000