Re: Annual Oracle World Database Survey

Joel Garry wrote:

>Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1063290517.128824_at_yasure>...
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>>Billy Verreynne wrote:
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>>>Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_exxesolutions.com> wrote
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>>>And this is just scratching the surface of Delphi's OO Pascal
>>>implementation. :-)
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>>>BTW, the variable + underscore is something that many use in Delphi to
>>>indicate a private class variable (however, we prefix the variable
>>>name with an underscore but this is not valid in PL/SQL).
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>>>What I do *not* want to see is the asine C/C++ implementations of
>>>token parsing and the like that is globalised and very unsafe to use.
>>>(there's nothing like that in Pascal)
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>>>The reason Delphi is so popular among Delphi developers is not because
>>>it is language loyalty or brand loyalty (hello VB developers!) or
>>>fanaticism (hello Java developers!). It is because of two things. The
>>>best IDE on the planet. A language and OO implementation that is easy
>>>and make sense.
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>>>Given Oracle's history of crap front-end tools (of which OEM is an
>>>extention), I have little hope of the former from Oracle. But the
>>>latter - an OO implementation that is easy, sensible, flexibile and
>>>all that... there's a *lot* that Oracle can learn from Delphi.
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>>>Microsoft proved that. They made the Delphi project manager an offer
>>>he could not refuse and had him design C#. Which is just a rippoff of
>>>Delphi - nothing more.
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>>>Billy
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>>Why don't you send a message to Mark Townsend describing in detail your
>>proposal and why
>>doing so would be advantageous to Oracle as opposed to that small cadre
>>of developers that
>>didn't walk away from Borland while Phillipe Kahn was destroying his
>>company.
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>Jealous? http://www.pegasusracing.com/ :-)
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>I missed all the fireworks (like
>http://www.insearchofstupidity.com/Book_Excerpts/Chapter_Seven/chapter_seven.html
>), since I was more interested in multiuser relational databases. I
>think Kahn actually hit the nail on the head when he predicted
>$100/seat for any commercial software. Don't think Larry wants to
>hear that!
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>jg
>--
>@home.com is bogus.
>"These are the kinds of profits that billionaires get envious about" -
>Charles Langley, referring to oil refiners doubling their markup for
>the recent price runup.
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Larry's just glad he's alive today after almost being run over by an 'Oracle' bus on the streets of San Francisco. Well that and the bomb scare (most people guessing called in by employees of PeopleSoft).

Larry would love to hear it. I'm sure he'd enjoy a good laugh.

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