Hej Keith!

Monday April 08 1996, Keith Thomson writes to Timo Maier:

 TM>> I'm using VP now for about 8 (?) month - I really love the
 TM>> (Borland-)way VP behaves. VP produces really small and fast code, and
 TM>> as a former BP-User, I'm used to the IDE. The only thing I miss is the
 TM>> online-help for the (whole?) OS/2 API - but I still have to use the
 TM>> beta #003 ):

You can always replace beta 3 with the new VP/2 v1.0 demo :-)

 KT> The problem..  The Borlandish implemetation is very lax and closer to C
 KT> (IE more bugs can get thru)

Why is it a problem that VP/2 v1.0 now supports the entire range of Delphi
language extensions?  I actually find that to be an advantage - and if you
do not want them, you can of course disable them with the new {$Delphi-}
directive.

 KT> The one thing i'd like to see in SP is a Text-mode IDE..

I think this is one of the things you'll never get.  According to Rene from
SpeedSoft, nobody should use OS/2 if they haven't got the machine to run a
GUI - besides which, SP never has been really good at the text-mode things
anyway. (Or GUI for that matter, but that's a different story :*)

 KT> The only place that SP is behind VP in is the size of the result code
 KT> (which is being worked on) and the debugger (Which i never need in SP
 KT> anyway!)

If you don't need a debugger, SP is the product for you, right.  I am
looking forward to see how long you are going to wait for this "code
size enhancement" to appear - so far, you've been waiting since v1.0 9
months ago, and the code has only gotten bigger and bigger...

 KT> Keith

Yours,
Allan

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