Newbie Question

[Steve Holden]

Stef Mientki wrote:
> bruno.desthuilliers at gmail.com wrote:
>> On 9 fév, 14:06, Stef Mientki <S.Mientki-nos... at mailbox.kun.nl> wrote:
>>>>> will explain the rest
>>>> Delphi is a (dying) proprietary, MS-Windows-only[1] software relying
>>>> on a low-level language.
>>> Well it may be dying,
>>> but for the moment it beats Python with a factor of 10,
>>> when it comes to user (the majority of PC users) friendly GUI ;-)
>> Would you mind explaining yourself and backing your above assertion ?
>> Like, ie, on which points does Delphi "beats" Python wrt/ GUIs, what
>> special magic would make so that GUIs designed with Delphi would be
>> more "user-friendly", and where does this "factor 10" comes from ?
>>
> Maybe I should have written it in quotes "factor of 10" ;-)
> But here are a few points
> - in Delphi the GUI design itself is done in a graphical environment, making it much easier and faster

Of course. You are comparing a Pascal-based IDE to a programming 
language. You might as well say "Visual Studio is better than C".

[...]

> but to be honest ...
> ... I never even tried to write a GUI in Python, ...
> ... just looked at others examples,
> ... and still not seen what I can perform in Delphi ;-)

Ignorance is bliss. This would apparently make you a troll.

regards
  Steve
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