Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Languages

Carol & Jerry Jankura wrote:

> If you're not familiar with Delphi, it's an object Pascal
> based language with a Visual Basic style interface. In
> my opinion, the components it offers are more complete
> than those offered with VB, and the price is certainly
> more attractive.

It is also a truly compiled language, and not p-code crap like VB. Both
compile and execution times are several times faster than VB -- near
C-speeds (approx 70%, whereas VB <=4 was only about 5-10%, and VB >=5 is
only about 20-25%). Although the underlying language takes some getting
used to (unless you're an old Turbo Pascal geek like myself ;-), it is
well worth it. It's strongly typed structure is ideal for applications
IMHO.

Of course, it doesn't hurt to have a development system that seemlessly
ports between both Windows and Linux. Although there is GCC and
libraries like wxWindows, nothing has a RAD (radical application
development) IDE (integrated development environment) like Delphi/Kylix.

-- TheBS

P.S. If you use these free "community" versions, you must release your
software GPL (GNU Public License). You must buy the commercial versions
to do commercial/non-GPL development, although the GPL does not force
you to release the source code for internal-only development (i.e. if
you don't release the software publicly, you don't have to release the
source code either -- unlike some other open source licenses, namely
vendor-specifc ones like IPL, NPL, SCSCL, etc...).

--
Bryan "TheBS" Smith mailto:b.j.smith@... chat:thebs413
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