{"id":1424,"date":"2007-02-21T20:36:58","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T00:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2007-10-06T10:16:55","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T13:16:55","slug":"code-and-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1424","title":{"rendered":"Code and gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">Y<\/span>esterday, I received an e-mail from CodeGear that the new Delphi platform <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codegear.com\/AboutUs\/News\/DelphiForWin32\/tabid\/240\/Default.aspx\">has been released<\/a> (or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codegear.com\/products\/delphiforwin32\">here for fancy images<\/a>). A bit expensive and I fear for the future of the Delphi environment: notice how the environment now closely seems to mimic the Visual Studio IDE. If you need to create genuine (native) Win32 applications, I guess there are only 2 viable languages left: Object Pascal and C++.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the days, Alfons and I (and many others) wondered why the makers of Turbo Pascal never considered standardizing the language: At that point, Alfons turned to C++ while I decided to focus on Delphi. Later on, on a professional level, I made the decision to leave Delphi and go on the SQL, C and Uniface route. That was the best decision I ever made in my career: first of all I was seriously thrown in the deep. Secondly, I learned to love VMS, and (from then on) other Unices.\n<\/p>\n<p>But going back to CodeGear: I see that they released their PHP for Delphi product, which appears to be the Delphi IDE geared to create PHP websites (it doesn&#8217;t generate executables, no). It includes the (so called) PHP VCL. Right, the point of that is?<sup>1<\/sup>.\n<\/p>\n<p>And maybe that&#8217;s the problem I have with older Borland products: They are generally good products and obviously, Delphi is one of them. But, the main question is, where is the roadmap (<a href=\"http:\/\/dn.codegear.com\/article\/33519\">Missing roadmap<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codegear.com\/tabid\/105\/Default.aspx\">CEO&#8217;s notes<\/a>)?\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small><sup>1<\/sup> I see that the PHP VCL has been <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/vcl4php\">open-sourced under the LGPL<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I received an e-mail from CodeGear that the new Delphi platform has been released (or here for fancy images). A bit expensive and I fear for the future of the Delphi environment: notice how the environment now closely seems &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1424\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4],"tags":[146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}