04-28-2003, 11:01 AM -
There are only a few things which you can't do using Delphi alone, and that is, for example, writing a device driver. As for the other 99.99999%, it does a great job... and in fact, most things MS promises with .Net have already been implemented in Delphi years ago...
...but in the end, it's a matter of personal preference, can't argue that. The fact is that Delphi is a powerful language, the Pascal code is very clean, the compiler takes a few seconds to build multi-megabyte application (compare that to C compilers which take several minutes) and runtime speed is about the same (not counting the overhead of the component library, which takes away speed slightly for easier use, but at the lowest level there are no differences)...
...but in the end, it's a matter of personal preference, can't argue that. The fact is that Delphi is a powerful language, the Pascal code is very clean, the compiler takes a few seconds to build multi-megabyte application (compare that to C compilers which take several minutes) and runtime speed is about the same (not counting the overhead of the component library, which takes away speed slightly for easier use, but at the lowest level there are no differences)...