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And also the author of Delphi and Turbo Pascal.
by Reitet00 5y ago
And also the author of Delphi and Turbo Pascal.
- ejb999 5y agoloved turbo pascal a long time ago - got my professional start there - but I will forgive him for Delphi anyway :>)
- lostmsu 5y agoWhat did you use between TurboPascal and C#? o-O
- ejb999 5y agoVB/VB6, with some Clipper and Foxpro mixed in. Switched to c# instead of picking up vb.net - in retrospect a good call.
- zwieback 5y agoClassic progression - some of us came from VB Classic to C# others from C++ (at least in the Windows world). Now we're all one big happy family.
- kingcharles 5y agoEven though I grew up with C as a kid, I still prefer VB.Net over C# as I believe the code is far more human-readable and less prone to technical errors - BUT, there is just no support for VB.Net. I got stick of having to convert code snippets I would find and this year I finally bit the bullet and moved to doing everything in C#.
- drittich 5y agoSimilar route here. I went from VB classic to JScript on the server (and client, so was doing isomorphic JavaScript 19 years ago!) and then to C3 a few years later.
- hackerfromthefu 5y agoWell I used VB4-6 and Delphi 5-6 extensively, and my experience was Delphi was lightyears ahead of VB, and I say that as someone who was deeply familiar with both and made heavy use of Dan Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer’s Guide to the Win32 API. It sounds like you were maybe using it at a fairly surface level, for which VB was good because it was highly approachable sure, but the wheels fell off pretty quick when you had to push it. Delphi was beautiful because it made the easy stuff as easy as VB, but the hard stuff was still easy where in VB it was either impossible or required dropping down to Win32 APIs or calling other languages.
- nottorp 5y ago> I will forgive him for Delphi anyway Sounds like you never used Delphi. Modern C sharp with whatever MS calls the GUI classes this week doesn't hold a candle to how fast you chouls whip up an UI in Delphi and then concentrate on actual functions. Edit: talking about the Delphi before Microsoft offered Hejlsberg 1 million extra per year and Borland refused to match...
- int_19h 5y agoThe original C# + Visual Studio was very similar to Delphi in many respects. Whipping up UI in particular; it even used the same anchor system for resizable widgets.
- nottorp 5y agoI'm under the impression that it's pretty hard to make custom controls that integrate with the UI builder in dot niet. Back when I used Delphi we had a legion. Made adding new user facing functions (in a data driven app mind) a breeze.
- int_19h 5y agoNot at all - I've done that kind of work myself. If anything, the designer integration in VS was more extensive. (Keep in mind tho that this is about WinForms specifically, and is less true of the frameworks that followed it. It's also about the original .NET Framework, not the present state of affairs with .NET Core, which required a new designer.)
- robinsonrc 5y agoYour take on Delphi is very different to mine!
- VikingCoder 5y agoThis always blows my mind, "Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than" https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html