Since there are some people on this thread who have used both Delphi and VFP, I'd be curious to know the following. I have heard a number of claims the Delphi is also far superior to VFP in terms of bug handling. True or False?

1) A claim was made that Delphi programmers spend a lot less time working around Delphi bugs than VFP programmers do getting around VFP bugs.
2)The claim was made the borland was much quicker to acknowledge and publish bugs and workagrounds than Microsoft, and also quicker to fix them.
3) The claim was made the virturally all Delphi bugs show up at compile time rather than at run.
4) The claim was made that the borland debugger works much better than the VFP debugger -- and that finding and fixing programmer errors was also faster than in VFP.

As I said, I don't know that any of the above are true, but they are very significant claims. Finding and fixing bugs is probably the most time consuming portion of programming, once the analysis phase is complete. If a language has fewer built in bugs, and makes finding our own bugs easier, that is an extremely significant advantage.If I got confirmation of the above from a second source, I would be very tempted to make the time to learn Delphi and check it out.

BTW the claim was also made that if you use ODBC Foxpro drivers rather than stupid Paradox ones Borland encourages the use of with Delphi, you could get performance close to that of VPF in querying, and faster than that of VFP in screen refreshes, and table updates. I would be very interested to here about confirmation of denial of this as well.


Thanks in advance

Gar