BL> It was bad enough when you tried to rip my flower garden out.
 BL> This morning, it loked like a bear had been through there.
 BL> Maybe two bears...

 BV> Ha! What did it look like after you decided that you didn't
 BV> want it ? I told the boys to mess it up _real_good_.

  Piffle! I have a savage highly-trained attack dog.

 BL> I'm not sure how Delphi fits into my wider scheme of things.

 BV> What fucking "scheme" are you talking about ? There is no
 BV> scheme Bob, it's all a farce.

  The Farce is with me. I have a bad feeling about this, Luke.

 BV> No DOS isn't dead, but I wouldn't exactly call Pascal an
 BV> orphan.

  Then why does Frank keep leaving it on my doorstep?

 BL> Delphi may be a do-all language and bring Pascal into the mainstream,
 BL> or it may drop dead.

 BV> ROFL...Wake up Bob.
 BV> What does it matter if Delphi or Borland do drop dead ?

  I don't give a fuck about Borland. I don't expect support for
imports in a banana republic anyway. I just don't want to spend 6
months learning Pascal and then have to go back to VB when the World
and the Microsoft Machine rolls right on by, or someone comes out with
a real VisualC that is easy to use - which is what I expect, BTW.

 BV> If the product is good you just keep using it. I make most of
 BV> my income from a product which stopped shipping 5 years ago. I
 BV> use it every day and whilst I await the next version, it really
 BV> doesn't matter if the company goes broke. It won't affect me or
 BV> my work.

  Eventually, the world rolls right on by an orphan, and you are left 
holding the baby.

 BL> If Delphi is a step between C and Basic using Pascal and the
 BL> ease of VB, and able to do Windows and DOS too, with a fast
 BL> run-time assembler, then I am very interested. Otherwise, I
 BL> start worrying about v1.0 and Borland going broke.

 BV> See above. If it works, who cares ? Mind you, a reference
 BV> manual would be nice.

  As you say.. but it seems that they assume a knowledge of Pascal. 
I was actually shocked - here's your CD; go root your boot. THIS is 
what's going to save Borland? I couldn't believe it! And I *still*
haven;t seen it working. I *still* don't have a clue if the compiler
is a patch on VB.

 BV> Vb is Mickey$ofts most popular language product. Turbo Pascal
 BV> was the product which built Borland, so I don't see why Delphi
 BV> can't save it.

  Dearie me... VB is aimed at the dickhead market. *I* am dead-centre
on the market Borland should be aiming at, so why do I feel so
disappointed?

 BV> True, although NOBODY had any stocks when PC-95 was on. This
 BV> may have been why it wasn't available. You must also consider
 BV> that they have just been through somewhat of a management
 BV> shakedown so I'm not that surprised that nobody thought to book
 BV> some stand space at a mickey mouse show.

  Mickey mouse PC95? Didn't you notice the thousand people wandering
around looking for something to buy... on the first day?

  Anyway... we can see what Frank says about the thing itself.

Regards,
Bob
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