*** Quoting Christopher di Armani from a message to Louis Rizzuto ***
CdA> I had/have the same problem Louis.  You're not alone in this feeling 
CdA> of frustration.  The biggest part of my own problem came from the 
CdA> "culture shock" of it all.   The surface stuff is all really simple, 
CdA> it's the stuff "under the hood" that takes a while to get a handle 
CdA> on.  At least this has been my experience.  I've been working with 
CdA> Delphi for about a year and a half now.
Wow. I am impressed that you put up with it so long.  
 LR> Long term familarity.
CdA> Exactly.  The longer I'm working with it the more of it makes sense.
I am 'older' perhaps than you - I am not sure I can take that much time to 
convert my DOS apps - which is still not done after 12 years and about 8 
man-years of effort - to a Delphi apps.  See my msg to Don Krauss.
 
CdA> There-in lies the problem.  I find I do alot of looking things up in 
CdA> the Win API so I understand what these guys are talking about.
 LR> Anyway suffice it to say it has not been a picnic.  It is getting
 LR> a bit easier but that is only because I have decided to move on
 LR> to other examples I hope to understand and leaving behind
 LR> examples that I still have tons of questions about.  Then again I
 LR> haver only had Delphi 2.0 for about a month.
CdA> Give yourself a break and understand that it will take a while.  :)
I have.  See my reply to Don Kraus.  I went back to my TP 6.0.  It makes more 
sense.  I am looking into Java - that makes more sense to me than my Delphi 
experience.
 
I do want to thank you for sharing your experience with me.  That is very 
generous of you.  I was going a bit batty over here - especially thinking I 
had turned stupid or something.  In the last 25 years or so, I do not think 
anything has had this negative effect upom me.  I have a long track record of 
picking up new compilers in a few days.  I picked up 'C' in a few days and 
was doing graphics in it in a week - had it working under UNIX and VAX/VMS - 
a piece of cake for me.  This Delphi think is quite complicated and I am not 
pursuaded it is worth doing just to create a Windows apps.
 
Now given this level complexity - if Java is this complex - in return for 
being able to write a apps once and run it anywhere - um, appeals to me. :)
 
Regards, -= Lou =-
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