It seems that many people fanatically recommend Delphi, while others fanaticaly despise Delphi. I've sent a question about comparative features of MS Access/Visual Studio/Delphi for working with databases to a newsgroup and people started to quarell instead of argumenting anything ! Interesting....
I started to be involved in programming and databases two years ago when I got an idea for very specific project. First I had to learn about databses in general, from zero. As MS Office is widespread and present in my job, MS Access was logical decision. I started learning Access and VBA fanatically.
Now, I feel that I'm ready for something more powerfull but don't know what to choose...I already started learning VB.NET...There are also some freeware IDE for .NET, like SharpDevelop, for example.
But I would like to find some good and easy to use IDE that will be both powerfull enough for making proffessional aplications and easy to use as Access/VBA was...Also, it would be great if such IDE is both for Windows and Linux.
Is Delphi solution for me ?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Caduto" <tony_caduto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <typing80wpm@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: Adventures in Quest for GUI RAD
Programmers Paradise has delphi in their catalogs...
If you call borland and tell them you want to do a competive upgrade for the old VB you are using
they will let you buy the upgrade to Delphi 2005 PRO. You have to ask.
Like I said before you get what you pay for and all this time you have been fooling around you could have just bought Delphi.
All the time you spent researching is actually costing someone money.
Not sure what you mean by this
And several years ago, I had some experiences with people using Delphi, and their database server that make me not so enthusiastic to get involved... but I did want to give credit to Tony that his arguments for using Delphi are convincing, if it were readily available. And I do thank him for all his time and efforts to advise me.
Delphi has been superior to VB,Access etc since 1995 when version 1 came out. Version 1 had features that MS has only
recently included in .net
I am just giving you good advice, I have been a developer for a long time and have used VB, C++, Assembly, Access etc and
when I say Delphi is the best tool for creating win32 database apps, I mean it.
If Access or C# was better I would for sure be using it.
Also I have had good luck with Microolap, I use their postgresdac components, and guess what? That MySQL RAD thing they sell
is created with.....yep you guessed it Delphi.
-- Tony Caduto AM Software Design Home of PG Lightning Admin for Postgresql 8.x http://www.amsoftwaredesign.com
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