C# VS Delphi

[vuyiswamb]

Good Morning All

I have been Developing in C#,VB.NET and have never Developed in Delphi and have never seen its syntax, mybe its because am not interested. but lately there was a debate at my office about Delphi and C#. well i have no doubts Delphi is never near C#. When i think of Delphi i think of vb6, i think its Dead.

What Do you think ? Correct me if am wrong?

[jmcilhinney]

Delphi is based on Pascal, where C# is based on C/C++ and VB.NET is based on BASIC. Delphi has been repeatedly upgraded as time has gone on, and it's most recent version(s) also support .NET. As such, Delphi can do whatever any other .NET language can do in terms of Framework capabilites. It lacks C#'s support for pointers, as far as I'm aware, and it probably lacks some of the features that make VB easier, like My and the application framework. I've never used it though, so I don't know for sure. I'd say that using the current version of Delphi would be about the same as using the current version of C# or VB for the most part though.