Re: Adventures in Quest for GUI RAD

Hello.
It seems that many people fanatically recommend Delphi, while others
fanaticaly despise Delphi. I've sent a question about comparative features
of MS Access/Visual Studio/Delphi for working with databases to a newsgroup
and people started to quarell instead of argumenting anything !
Interesting....
I started to be involved in programming and databases two years ago when I
got an idea for very specific project. First I had to learn about databses
in general, from zero. As MS Office is widespread and present in my job, MS
Access was logical decision. I started learning Access and VBA fanatically.
Now, I feel that I'm ready for something more powerfull but don't know what
to choose...I already started learning VB.NET...There are also some
freeware IDE for .NET, like SharpDevelop, for example.
But I would like to find some good and easy to use IDE that will be both
powerfull enough for making proffessional aplications and easy to use as
Access/VBA was...Also, it would be great if such IDE is both for Windows and
Linux.
Is Delphi solution for me ?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Caduto" <tony_caduto(at)amsoftwaredesign(dot)com>
To: <typing80wpm(at)aol(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Adventures in Quest for GUI RAD

> Programmers Paradise has delphi in their catalogs...
>
> If you call borland and tell them you want to do a competive upgrade for
> the old VB you are using
> they will let you buy the upgrade to Delphi 2005 PRO. You have to ask.
>
> Like I said before you get what you pay for and all this time you have
> been fooling around you could have just bought Delphi.
> All the time you spent researching is actually costing someone money.
>
> Not sure what you mean by this
>
>> And several years ago, I had some experiences with people using Delphi,
>> and their database server that make me not so enthusiastic to get
>> involved... but I did want to give credit to Tony that his arguments for
>> using Delphi are convincing, if it were readily available. And I do thank
>> him for all his time and efforts to advise me.
>
> Delphi has been superior to VB,Access etc since 1995 when version 1 came
> out. Version 1 had features that MS has only
> recently included in .net
>
> I am just giving you good advice, I have been a developer for a long time
> and have used VB, C++, Assembly, Access etc and
> when I say Delphi is the best tool for creating win32 database apps, I
> mean it.
> If Access or C# was better I would for sure be using it.
>
> Also I have had good luck with Microolap, I use their postgresdac
> components, and guess what? That MySQL RAD thing they sell
> is created with.....yep you guessed it Delphi.
>
>
> --
> Tony Caduto
> AM Software Design
> Home of PG Lightning Admin for Postgresql 8.x
> http://www.amsoftwaredesign.com
>
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