> > People always ask me what prgmLang to use, so I ask them which OS, > > when they say Windows, I say go VS. > > I ask "what do you want to do?".
I'd say to them the same, but this is for standalone programmers and small flexible teams of deeply knowledgeable (and thus adaptable) programmers. For companies it's not the same, they want to choose some IDE and invest in learning it and stick to it as long as possible (they won't select "the right tool for the job" for each project, they want to use the same tool in all jobs [understandable though]) Myself, I select between Delphi, Java (usually JBuilder), VB.net (WinForms or ASP.net) or XML/XSLT and HTML/CSS (with minimum JavaScript if not possible to avoid it [say to print a certain html frame]). But I don't see any partner company of mine wiling to move away say from Java or from .NET for a certain project and sometimes they pay me to consult on or take on the porting of the stuff I had built them at some research project to their preferred platform later on if they succeed (say if they got followup funding or want to make a product out of the results of the research project), from Object Pascal to Java for example ---------------- George Birbilis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Computer & Informatics Engineer Microsoft MVP J# for 2004-2006 Borland "Spirit of Delphi" ++ QuickTime, Delphi, ActiveX, .NET components ++ http://www.kagi.com/birbilis ++ Robotics ++ http://www.mech.upatras.gr/~Robotics http://www.mech.upatras.gr/~robgroup _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0644-4, 31/10/2006 Tested on: 2/11/2006 9:32:40 ?? avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2006 ALWIL Software. _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
