Delphi vs VB(.NET)

[quahog]

The problem with Delphi is: Borland. They cant market a product. Any product. They develop great products but cant sell them.

I dabbled in Delphi briefly but I never got too into it. Did anyone say that it uses turbo pascal? For all those who were forced to learn pascal in college. It is great.

From a data standpoint, delphi is much easier to code than VB.net. The components are data aware as soon as you drop them onto the form. This is great for developing when you can see how large you need a field to be.

Other borlands products include:

Quattro Pro
Cold fusion reactors
Quantom Flux Capacitors
Perpectual motion machine

 

[Sammy]

Delphi vs VB.NET

I have yet to find a developer who actually tried Delphi and VB and decided against Delphi. Comparing the 2 language implementations is not a 1-to-1 comparison.
Delphi gives you the power of C++ without the language hindrances and the simplicity of VB.

Borland always implements MS technologies better than MS themselves for e.g.
1) Delphi 3s implementation of COM completely blew VB and VC++ away
2) Delphi6s implementation of Web-Services won awards beating VS implementation

Web-Development with Delphi using IntraWeb is exactly like programming Web-Forms in ASP.NET (and IntraWeb came before ASP.NET implementation of VS.NET)

Regarding the .NET Framework language choice is not really that important anymore unless you want to write unsafe code.
I agree that Borland lacks the ability to market its tools as MS does but that should not stop a developer from influencing his management on buying the better tool as eventually its the developer whos got to live and breathe the tool daily

-Sam

 

[Mehyar]

samssmithnz,

Amen...