John
> Of all the tools you listed, Delphi is the most viable. However, for some time, there has been a going concern issue with regard to the company.<
Yup. I would not be *allowed* to use Delphi by some clients for this reason. But on a technical level: I'd say Delphi is hard to beat in every technical parameter that matters. Which was why I raised the issue. We have to admit, the issue against Delphi is BIAS.
> All of the best minds that designed Delphi work for Microsoft now anyway
Yes, I think Microsoft agreed with your point about viability and my point about technical excellence, and killed both birds with the same cheque!
> Java - too immature of a platform.
Can't entirely agree- there are many flavours of Java, some have been around for 2 years now. The example I quoted, Supercede, is fairly mature, OO, compiles to machine code, uses JADO (yes, the blessed ADO in a Java wrapper)...
Regards
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
