BV> True, but if Delphi does turn out to be a dog, Frank will be in the
BV> shit. He will be worse off than someone like myself, because he will
BV> then have to wait until it's fixed or someone does something better.
BV> Of course, the above should not be directly applied to Frank, but is
BV> meant in a more general manner.
FM> But specifically referring to Frank, if that turns out to be the case
FM> he'll just continue to use Turbo Pascal, and Turbo Pascal for Windows.

I don't think it will come to that though. Delphi just keeps looking
better and better the more I look at it. I've even seen some COMs
which has been written in 100% Delphi code, and turned into a
component so that you have the basis of a fully interrupt driven
Windoze COM driver in 43 lines of code. Well as close as you will get
to being Interrupt driven in Windows. It's pretty powerful stuff.

I've had a play with their database tools, which look very nice.
I've already used them to dig my arse out of a hole WRT some dBase
files which got trashed at one site I look after. Without the Delphi
stuff, I would have been fucked there, the only alternative would
have been to have trash the lot and start again ( no backup ).

I only wish I had time to get more familiar with it.

Regards, Brenton
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