>>Methinks that Delphi is not a paradigm of success that VFP should be modeled on :-)
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>John,
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>I am curious as to why you think this? Delphi is a robust, stand-out product for Windows development. It is built on lightning-fast compiler technology that has been around for a long time, and the product is reaching a very mature version 5.
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>Now, if you are calling into question Delphi's backing (i.e. the instability of Borland/Inprise/Whatever), that is another matter entirely. Considering that VFP would have the world's largest and most dominant software company backing it, I don't think the Delphi weakness (it's maker) would really matter, eh?
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>JoeK


I have been told by our company C++ programmer that while Delphi is very robust in the Windows environment, when Delphi code is exported to Linux, or any Unix based enviroment it is very unstable. Since I have never used Delphi myself, I can't speak from first hand experience.