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Borland Delphi 5 Enterprise |
| Date: |
06/07/00 (251 review reads) |
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Advantages: Price range to suit everyone, speed of development, ease of use with the lanugage
Disadvantages: Minimum .exe footprint is about 350k., Company who owns delphi keeps shifting and selling on
I've been using Delphi for years now. What can I say... I'm a big fan of pascal, always have been always will be. When Borland first announced that they'd be doing a windows version of pascal I shuddered and left it on the shelf for a few years. A mistake I'll always regret.
The advent of Object pascal enhancements and the ease with which Borland have made windows app developments certainly bring Pascal into the new millenium and beyond.
This latest release will please anyone who is considering learning a new language as it's basic simplicity caries right through from your first 'hello world' app to a multi-tiered database engine for web deployment.
Depending on which verison (Standard, pro, enterprise) you gpo for there are various standard components [Wee drag and drop code widgets which make life easier]. Check their website for more details on these specifics.
Features I like the most are :-
. The VCL (Borlands clever way of doing drag-and-drop code reuse)
. The IDE (Environment) has a killer debugger which will make even large project relatevily simple to find bugs in.
. Extensive help
. A huge following on the internet so example source is easy to come by.
. A new Linux extension (Kilix) is due soon which should allow projects to move relateively effortlessly to Linux.
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- 28/07/00 Not a rumour my friend, it's a reality. It'll be called Kylix for the meantime and will allow you to almost immediately recompile windows apps for linux. Not only that but the Kylix environment will also use C++ soon enough so C++Builder people can also migrate to a new single environment.
A new rumour is that Kylix will be ported to more than just Linux. So we can expect to see numerous other platform releases. Ah, Delphi just keeps getting better. |
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- 16/07/00 I have not used delphi 5 as yet. however, PC Plus gave away version 3 of Delphi which i have found of some use. i would suggest that if someone wanted to learn a bit about programing they should look at some of the more professional of the magazines and see what is being given away(PC Plus,PC pro,Personal Computer world). the main restriction on the otherwise full product is that the user is not to distribute the Applications, which is no great loss if you want to find out if you can use the language. Obviously if you want to distribute your apps you are going to have to part with some money first.
Delphi is a vey easy language to use even/especially for beginers. It does not difficult to write simple programs using drag and drop components and a few simple lines of code. If more compliated apps are to be written, then this is possible as well, although these will Obviously require some practice.
Delphi uses components to create applications. The most important of these are supplied with delphi. If the programer needs to write there own commonents then it is possible to do so.
If and when the programer needs/wants to upgrade to C++ from Object Pascal Borland, Inprise(or whatever there current name is) produce another language IDE called c++ builder. c++ builder can use the componets created from delphi or C++ Builder. C++ builder would be a good upgrade from Delphi because although the syntax is different with fewer restrictions the IDE works the same.
There was a rumor that Delphi was to be ported from the windows platform to Linux. From a programers veiw point this would be great, as i don't know of any visual programing enviroment as compete and simple as delphi, available for linux .
I would recommend Delphi to anyone with an interest in programing |
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