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Delphi's great!
Sincerely,
Benjamin Hoover
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PRX(Cell) Assembler and a fair share of C++
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Although Delphi is a simple language, I think it suffers from "verbal diarrhea" and it has some silly design problems.
My background is in C/C++ although I do most of my programming in PHP nowadays and I find Delphi/Pascal's "begin .. end" the silliest language constructs ever.
The fact is, that it could have been made so much simpler - if you have a close look at the grammar, you find that Mr Wirth didn't actually need the "begin" keyword, the language would still be unambiguous without it. "Then", "do", "while" etc already define the start of a "block"
Also, "begin" is sooo much longer than C/C++/Java/Javascipt's (etc) "{", special after about 500 lines of code, you start to wonder if your life is worth living :-)
And then there is something like Python which is even quicker to type and is pretty much like Delphi anyway.
Then there is that silly tabbing "policy" in Delphi/Pascal editors. I know how I want to format my code - I don't need to be "told" how I should use tabs...
I know that in some editors you can disable this behavior and that's good, however, ActFX editor gives us very few options ... can't even change the color scheme in the editor...
Yes, I still think Delphi/Pascal are easy languages to use, however, I don't think they are *productive* languages, so for that reason I would go with a more "mainstream" language derived from C, for example, a Groovy-like scripting language, if I had the choice.
F.
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| Basic in some form. On the other hand, Delphi looks a bit like it..
//----------------------------------------------------- // Sorry for the programming dialect. Migrating from VB... //-----------------------------------------------------
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For my part, I use WinDev. Simple and very powerful.
Best Regards
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I have a background mostly in Asm, ECMAScript, PHP, Bash, Python, C/C++ - but Ada is now (by far) my language of preference. Ada is seeing significant usage worldwide in the high-integrity and safety-critical domains including commercial and military aircraft avionics, air traffic control, banking, railroad systems, and medical devices. Initially it was designed for U.S. Department of Defense, but has since been open-sourced. It is very well supported and documented.
http://www.adaic.org/advantages/projects/
http://www.adacore.com
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Ada
I wish I'd discovered Ada sooner. To those who know Pascal it will seem quite familiar.
Edited: 1/24/2012 4:42:26 AM by upsandwns
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