17 Oct
2011
17 Oct
'11
9:22 a.m.
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, vintagecoder at aol.com wrote:
Kylix is no longer available, but Embarcadero (the company that now owns
the Delphi/C++ Builder toolchain) have a new Linux version on their 2012
roadmap. The latest release of Delphi (XE2) natively supports iOS/MacOS
and Windows 32 & 64 bit dev. This includes their C++ Builder product.
If you
don't want to use C/C++, you can't beat FreePascal & Lazarus.
g.
Thanks Gene. My first reaction was "no way!" since I'm kind of the
opposite
of what you could remotely call a fan of anything Wirthless had anything to
do with except Modula-2. But I started looking over the Free Pascal pages
and there's a lot going on there. I know Delphi has been used to create
quite a few UIs, Object Pascal seems to have some life left in it and
enough guys around to keep it going. Extending your suggestion, I wonder if
Kylix is still around or if older copies will run on Linux and UNIX or just
Linux, and if any of the Free Pascal and Lazarus code would work with it.
BTW thanks for your .sig. I omit mine most of the time
but every time I see
yours I feel a little better. Mine is actually two lines longer so I will
have to be a little more creative and trim it, but still :p
I look at it this way - if they don't like it, they're free to reference
Figure One. :)
g.
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