Delphi 6.0 60 day trial

[thinktank]

Before I answer their Survey and pull up the download...

I would like to know about your opinion on delphi 6.

[filburt1]

It's based on Pascal.
























'Nuff said. Pascal sucks.

[scoutt]

Arien, don't try to make everyone conform to your opinions. not every hates all the stuff you do.

[filburt1]

You like Pascal?

[scoutt]

never played with it. but just from listening to you, I hate it already, so I might never get a chance to play with it.

[abdul]

Originally posted by scoutt
Arien, don't try to make everyone conform to your opinions. not every hates all the stuff you do.

Did not need to post that

[Stefan Raab]

pascel used ta be poplar. but the syntex in flippier than a bare bellied lizard.

[filburt1]

VB's syntax is like a mix of Pascal and C++. Freaky.

[scoutt]

Originally posted by abdul


Did not need to post that

and why not??????

every post he does it says "don't use that it sucks, use this..."

[filburt1]

In the Visual Basic Forums, I thought it would be appropriate.

[parksie]

Pascal is good for teaching programming skills because it's so strict. However, that strictness means I wouldn't want to use it to write a real program.

I prefer C++ where you can have all sorts of fun casting random numbers to pointers and then passing them off to Windows

[filburt1]

C++ is pretty strict, too.

[parksie]

Originally posted by filburt1
C++ is pretty strict, too.

Yes, but it's pointlessly simple to get past that.

[filburt1]

I believe Pascal's variables aren't case sensitive...? Or at least function names aren't...

[parksie]

Really? Yikes.

Not sure if VB's variables are case-sensitive since the editor corrects them

[filburt1]

The editor does so much to "improve" your code:

' It'll do this:
 
Sub foo()
    Exit Sub
 
ErrorChecker:
    Exit Sub
End Sub
 
' Instead of this
Sub foo()
    Exit Sub
 
    ErrorChecker:
    Exit Sub
End Sub()

I like the IDE in the way it immediately identifies syntax errors, but it only colorizes the line after you go to the next line.