I guess Delphi was superior than other and make first Executable
than any of Radical Development tools like of VB or Power Builder.
And also looks like SPL too.

Only Reason I have switched to VB/VBA is nothing to with technology
Company stability, I Likes Paradox, Paradox Windows and Delphi.
But, company is not stable and hard to maintain when company is gone.

Cheers
Peter C.
Chuck Ryan <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stigers, Greg [And] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 11:29 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Cross platform development
> >
> >
> > X-no-Archive:yes
> > 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.
>