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> From: Stigers, Greg [And] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 11:29 AM
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> Subject: Re: Cross platform development
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> I doubt that I have experience with this to have a qualified
> opinion, but is
> Inprise's (nee Borland) Delphi their adaptation from Pascal to an
> object-oriented Pascal, then to a product competing with VB? If I have

Actually I think many Delphi developers take exception to comparing Delphi
to VB, with some justification, as Object Pascal is much closer to C++ in
terms of power and flexibility. But as Borland was able to put a true Visual
IDE on top of it, as compared to the Visual C++ definition of a Visual IDE,
it tends to get compared to the more limited VB.

Delphi is an excellent tool that I use at home. Unfortunately I cannot
recommend it to replace MS development tools, in an enterprise environment,
due to what I see as a total lack of direction and refusal to face reality
on the part of Inprise management.