Re:Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'should...
by jjkaczor on Friday December 10, 2021 @08:53AM
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The language was crap - the IDE/designer was excellent.
For me - the sweet-spot that I used for all of my own personal projects after outgrowing VB1-6 was... Borland Delphi.
The IDE/designer was at least as good as VB - but the Object Pascal language was so powerful. It was truely object-oriented and if one wanted, one could work at a high level of abstraction. Yet it could also natively drop-down to low-level Windows API's, and handle pointer-based work if necessary.
Unfortunately - for my professional career, Delphi never captured the large-scale Enterprise market - that went to .NET or Java and the rest is history...
(Occasionally I noodle about with FreePascal for the nostalgia factor)
For me - the sweet-spot that I used for all of my own personal projects after outgrowing VB1-6 was... Borland Delphi.
The IDE/designer was at least as good as VB - but the Object Pascal language was so powerful. It was truely object-oriented and if one wanted, one could work at a high level of abstraction. Yet it could also natively drop-down to low-level Windows API's, and handle pointer-based work if necessary.
Unfortunately - for my professional career, Delphi never captured the large-scale Enterprise market - that went to .NET or Java and the rest is history...
(Occasionally I noodle about with FreePascal for the nostalgia factor)