>>Delphi is a great tool. However, the Borland Database Engine (BDE) and its default use of Paradox for local data manipulation is a serious drawback.
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>Have you ever seen benchmarks in regards to the BDE. It is actually a pretty fast engine.
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>>Delphi as C/S front end, from an OOP perspective, could rival VB.
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>There can be no comparision to VB as VB is not OOP. One thing that is nice about Delphi - and VDB 7 for that matter - is its two way tools. Write code - and have the visual designer automatically see the changes. Or, make changes visually and see the change in code.
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>>If I did not have the management directive to convert our legacy FoxPro 2.6 apps to VFP, I would select Delphi over a MS tool for a C/S project...
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>Delphi is another good choice and it is nice to see this opinion expressed here. Glad I am not alone<g>.
I, and members of my staff, appreciate your fair evaluation of other tools here in this forum. I think the whole approach of MS Visual Studio is the opportunity for a developer to use the right tool for the situation.
I have read your book and have found it quite valuable in explaining the difference to upper management between Fox and C/S.
Regards,
Jack Mendenhall
Reinsurance Management, Inc.
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