Re: Delphi Dusts Visual Basic

delphi sucks, noone wants to write in pascal. end of story.

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In article <4dc3t0$9p3_at_rigel.pixi.com>, Chung Hong
<chungh_at_uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu> wrote:



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> Delphi Dusts Visual BASIC

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> A HIT

> Powerful and friendly, Borland's new 4GL application development system

> earns a must-have rating.

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> By Nancy Nicolaisen, Windows Sources, June, 1995

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> Borland is at last shipping its Delphi object oriented visual programming

> tool, and the package's final release easily meets the considerable promise

> of its earlier beta versions. (See "Sharpening the Focus on Visual

> Programming," December 1994, and Paul Bonner's On Customization column,

> February 1995.) Delphi's final version includes a few interface tweaks and

> final compiler tuning. Borland set pricing at $495 for the desktop version

> and $ 1,999 for the Client/server version.

> 

> Delphi provides as much power as any true object-oriented language and is

> as friendly to nonprogrammers as Visual Basic. The program supports

> inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism, and it generates compiled

> executables.

> 

> Delphi uses a forms-based interface for designing applications and lets you

> accomplish a lot without doing any coding at all. Prebuilt reusable objects

> include both standard dialog and visual interface elements, plus numerous

> data-aware controls for browsing and querying databases.

> 

> Delphi kicks the chair out from under its competition in its ablity to

> generate high performance compiled executables--not the slower interpreted

> code most Visual Basic environments generate.

> 

> Database programmers will appreciate Delphl's full SQL-92 support and the

> way its prebuilt controls shield them from unnecessary coding. And Delphi's

> debugger rates every bit as powerful as that of Borland C++.

> 

> Delphi's strong set of network simulation tools should endear it to

> developers. Borland integrates within Delphi a local server version of

> Interbase that runs as a high-performance local server under Windows. Using

> this simulator, we designed and coded client/server applications without

> having to connect to a remote server.

> 

> Delphi is a must-have visual development tool. If you're building

> applications for Windows 3.x and/or Win 95, put it in your tookit.

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