James (Jim) Hatridge writes:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Phil Shrimpton wrote:
From: Damon Register
Hi,
I was drooling too until I saw the price. The price is too high.
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-01-31-001-27-OP-CY-SW
They are releasing the 'full' version for free if you want to develop open source software.
Cheers
Phil
HI Guys!
What is better with Delphi? I mean I can program in 5 other languages, why should I learn this one? What makes it better than C for example? Any ideas on
I used Delphi in college for a software engineering course. Its main advantage is RAD (Rapid Application Development). You can crank out a usable interface in a matter of minutes. I am sure that there will be support for loading shared libraries, and calling C or C++ functions. So you don't have to give up C.
how hard it will be to port a Delphi program from W$ to Linux?
From what I have read, as long as you have not made any direct calls to the windows API it should take a matter of minutes. Just replace calls in the uses statements with the correct Linux calls. The uses statement is similar to #include in C.
I wonder if they will be supporting any other unices. That sure would be nice.