Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2974 mails)

[Jesse Marlin <jesse.marlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.