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2003-11-17 05:41:27 PM
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"Jeff Undercash" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
| Which way are you and your company going?
PHP if you really want to know :-)
 

Markus Rautenberg writes:
--
Rudy Velthuis (TeamB)
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
 

Markus Rautenberg writes:
came with everything on the CD, for instance).
--
Rudy Velthuis (TeamB)
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off
your goal."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
 

Even after SP1, I had to install .NET "manually" - or voluntarily.
 

"Peter Morris [Droopy Eyes Software]" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>wrote in
message news:3fb7bfe6$XXXX@XXXXX.COM...
windows API.
Kirk Halgren
 

"Rudy Velthuis (TeamB)" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
Web via dial-up.
Dave
 

"Lauchlan M" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
creating apps that run under .NET. What I am talking about is a tool for
creating stand-alone C# apps which don't require the presence of the .NET
runtime. This is nothing to do with Delphi.NET.
Dave
 

"Kirk Halgren" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
Dave
 

Kirk Halgren
"Dave Jewell" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
 

Kirk Halgren writes:
| Then what is the native API to be?
By the time we get to Lonhorn the native API will be .NET and Win32 will be
a compatibility layer. (or so I hear)
Joanna
Consultant Software Engineer
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"Joanna Carter (TeamB)" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
So do I assume correctly that calls in through .net will be the fastest way
to access the functions? Will the help files be written in C# instead of C?
Kirk Halgren
 

Jeff Undercash cried "Banzai!" and then writes::
options, but with not enough time to figure them out. Delphi 7 is
a new step for me. Before Delphi 7, I used D4 and I just really got
turned off of it. Delphi 1 was the most useful Delphi I have used.
I'm a dBplus (used to be called Visual dBase, which was Borland's
product for a while until dBase Inc. took control) programmer and
use Delphi7 on the side for some personal projects. But as it
stands, it is really hard trying to divert one's attention to
multiple languages without either getting syntax-confused or
getting a headache or both. ("Dammit! Why doesn't " i = 10"
work in Delphi7? It works in dBplus!.. Oh wait.. darn forgot
the semicolon.") Ok, it is a very simple case of mistaken
identity; but it does happen.
I suppose I am not the type of person to try different languages
at the same time. Those who do, I applaud them.
(C/C++/C#/Delphi/VB.Net/python/perl/etc... my goodness! There's
really no way anyone can program properly knowing all those
languages...
Seriously, I am going to take a semi-active approach. I am d/ling
C#Builder personal as I write and hopefully that will allow me
to understand what the smeg this whole thing is all about.
.NET seems like the future, but who knows what the future holds?
An asteroid could just wipe this Earth clean of inhabitants,
and any remaining survivors wouldn't give a toodles what language
was used; it just wasn't that language that helped protect the
Earth. (weak grin)
I know what I wrote doesn't help. I am just confused myself it's
just frustrating. There's just WAY too many languages out there.
Just not enough time or brain cells to learn them all. It's
either specialize in one or two, or become a "Jack of all trades,
but master at none".
 

"Joanna Carter (TeamB)" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
seems to mean anything we want it to. I do not believe that the .NET
framework methods will replace Win32 as the "native" Windows API. In fact,
strictly speaking, Win32 isn't native either. The only *real* native API
set hosted by NT variants is the (largely undocumented) NTDLL functionality.
Everything else sits on top of this and I am very confident that that won't
change under LongHorn.
Hence, .NET will be the "preferred" (by Microsoft <g>) API under Longhorn
but it certainly won't be native.
Dave
 

"Edmund" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes news:3fb9ea5e$XXXX@XXXXX.COM...
it. Who is leading all of this? Greedy corporations that is who. Pascal and C++ are good
enough, but noooooo, "let's change this, oopps, only works on MY OS"!!
If we would all settle down with one syntax we would have reusable code. I hear
so often, "don't re-invent the wheel, use our libraries", NO, you don't reinvent the wheel
and make me use your libraries with your pathetic new language!!!
 

In article <3fb91891$XXXX@XXXXX.COM>, XXXX@XXXXX.COM says...
|>No. It will be the *preferred* Windows API. Huge, huge difference.
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|>Dave
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|Then what is the native API to be?
MS-DOS
Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!!