Microsoft Patents 'IsNot'

[szuchymj at jmu.edu]

johng2001 at rediffmail.com wrote:
> All the VB fans I know have not experienced Delphi. They just don't
> know what they are missing. I am sure there are people who actually
> chose VB, but not any one I know. When I marvelled at VB myself, it
was
> back when I myself was unaware of Delphi/C++ Builder. I used to think
> C++ programming on Windows had to be with VC++ and MFC and VB was the
> only sane choice for most of my apps. When I first tried Delphi, it
> only took me a couple of hours to realize that I will never use VB
> again.

Well, Delphi has its share of problems and unfixed bugs. But it is
still the best  development system for Win32, especially in comparison
to Visual Studio 6.

I've heard some good things about Python too, but haven't had any
reason to try it yet.