BV> Delphi will initially have an RRP of $350 for the CD version.
BV> Upgrades from TP will RRP at $280
BL>  As soon as I saw VB, I knew that it would cause a revolution in
BL> programming. It is *too* nice. I rate it the best M$ program I have
BL> ever used, and that includes Word. I guess that Delphi is Borland's
BL> first attempt at doing a proper compiler, since Turbo Pascal. It'll
BL> need to be good to top VB.

Guess what was in my mail-box when I got home late last night...???
Yep. An invitation to the release of Delphi !

BL> My only experience of Borland is C++ 3, and it is a heap of shit. It
BL> is so bad I keep thinking I am doing something wrong. I keep saying,
BL> this can't be right!

It's not Borland C per-se. The real problem is that none of the
developers of C compilers have really looked at VB. The quick look
they do have wouldn't show it's real power. This is where they all
fuck up.

BL> I still can't believe that when I want to run a C program, I have to
BL> wait 20-seconds while the bloody thing recompiles and links something
BL> I've only added a comma to! VB does it in a flash!

Because VB already has everything loaded. All it needs to do is to
start interpreting what is already in RAM.

BL> They have two compilers: one for the final .exe that takes 20
BL> seconds, and a run-time compiler that is instantaneous.

I've already explained why the run-time is instantaneous. The reason
for the 20-second delay with the pseudo EXE creation process is
because is needs to turn everything into tokens for the interpreter
and it then needs to append it to some startup code which loads the
VBRUNx00.DLL which actually runs it.

BL> I am certainly interested - if only to shaft Microsoft for naming
BL> something BOB, and if Delphi writes faster assembler and lets me write
BL> ASM in line, and has a better set of functions than VB's simple-minded
BL> lot, then $300 would not be too much to pay. $800 is a joke! ROFL!!

VB Professional is about $695 from memory...

BL> I keep discovering that everything is shit easy. At every new step,
BL> I suffer "is this all there is?" syndrome.

True. Sometimes it can be like that. Then there are times when it
isn't anywhere as easy. The worst of all is when you have spent a
few days writing something really tricky and at the end it works but
you don't know how the fuck it does it. This actually happens more
often than you would imagine.

Regards, Brenton
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