John
We keep seeing these sort of posts. Surely we've been over this stuff often enough not to have to keep repeating it?
From my perspective: I would be interested to hear your impressions of Delphi, Java (nice versions like Supercede, for example, as well as J++), maybe Powerbuilder. All good products. None of which you judge to be the "right" tool, based on what I read here.
Sometimes it seems that some of us only ever consider products that come from Microsoft. May I hasten to add that this is a perfectly valid and defensible stance, because Microsoft produces very strong tools that I use and I would not want to argue against that, but for such a person to then accuse others of having personal bias in choice of tools reminds yours truly of various proverbs about casting the first stone in a glasshouse with a beam in one's eye.
Sorry, couldn't resist. <g>
Re<g>ards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1