What would Delphi be without copy & paste ?

[Skybuck Flying]

Probably a terribly frustrating and time consuming language.

I'd like to point that out that Delphi partially continues to exists because
of this important copy & paste feature.

I wouldn't go as far as saying that Delphi exists because of the grace of
copy & paste.

Delphi has other adventages like fast compile times.

But language wise Delphi is probably hanging on a thread... compared to
other languages.

There is a slight adventage of more robustness but overall the "begin" and
"end" statements everywhere are a big waste of time.

And the same can be said by other long language constructs.

After 20 years of programming and having programmed in Python for 2 years or
so... my love for Delphi has cooled down incredibly...

I do not see many reasons to continue programming in an in-efficient
language ?!

I think Delphi should have evolved into something like Python...
unfortunately Delphi did not.

I do have hopes that some day Delphi might become efficient again... perhaps
as a sort of dual-language.

Suited for "noobs" and "pro's".

Bye,
Skybuck.

[Ramine]

Hello,


You have to be reasonable, there is advantages and disavantages
in Delphi and Python and Java, for exemple if you look at the frameworks
inside Delphi, here they are:

VCL
FireMonkey
DataSnap
FireDAC
WebBroker


But the frameworks in Python are:

Django
Pyramid



So you can notice with me that Delphi is much better than Python or Java
on the GUI , and it has more frameworks than Python.


Please look here:

http://vschart.com/compare/delphi-programming-language/vs/python-programming-language




Thank you,
Amine Moulay Ramdane.

Post by Skybuck Flying
Probably a terribly frustrating and time consuming language.
I'd like to point that out that Delphi partially continues to exists
because of this important copy & paste feature.
I wouldn't go as far as saying that Delphi exists because of the grace
of copy & paste.
Delphi has other adventages like fast compile times.
But language wise Delphi is probably hanging on a thread... compared to
other languages.
There is a slight adventage of more robustness but overall the "begin"
and "end" statements everywhere are a big waste of time.
And the same can be said by other long language constructs.
After 20 years of programming and having programmed in Python for 2
years or so... my love for Delphi has cooled down incredibly...
I do not see many reasons to continue programming in an in-efficient
language ?!
I think Delphi should have evolved into something like Python...
unfortunately Delphi did not.
I do have hopes that some day Delphi might become efficient again...
perhaps as a sort of dual-language.
Suited for "noobs" and "pro's".
Bye,
Skybuck.

[Skybuck Flying]

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