*** Quoting Jud McCranie from a message to Louis Rizzuto ***
JM> On 24 Feb 97 12:11pm, Louis Rizzuto wrote to Francois Piette:
 LR> in the past, I think I my prime problem is the 3rd party books I am 
 LR> using.  I had many of them - 4 - 5 but I found I was getting confused.
JM> I have a problem like that too.  One of the books that I went through 
JM> several chapters of had you to go through their examples.  But when 
JM> I'd done the examples I didn't understand how to do what I wanted to 
JM> do.  I could duplicate their example, but it didn't help much in 
JM> actually learning how to use Delphi.  It is like "to do this do 
JM> that...."  But "this" isn't what I want to do.
Yup, that is the same feeling I got for these books.  They have this 'let's 
feed them for a day' mentality instead of really teaching us Delphi so we can 
really create our own stuff.
 
I just recived this msg.  Don't ask the answer is lengthy.  Turns out I have 
not looked at Delphi since that last msg of mine.  Too many other things to 
do.
 
Now I am beginning to look at Java.  "Write it once and use it on any 
platform".  Now that is worth the headaches of this kind of complexity.  But 
for just putting out a Windows apps, I don't think so.  Not if I can help it.
I have the sense I will be older and greyer before I ever convert my TP 6.0 
DOS based database apps to Delphi - and then what - more similar crap just so 
i can have a Windows apps?  Maybe Java will give me what I realy want - the 
heck w/ Delphi.  Now that is something I never thought I would say.  I have 
been buying Trubo Pascal from Borland for almost 12 years.  I guess it is 
time for a big chnage.
Regards, -= Lou =-
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