Clay, I like stick-shifts, I drive motorcycles *and* stick-shifts, and I was about to buy a Z4, but the wife stopped me (judging, correctly, that it is a girl-trap). I even write assembly now and then, when absolutely needed. I cant say it is fun, though. the thing is, I never have seen a single task implemented in C (not C++ mind you), that can not be implemented in Delphi, with the SAME or better performance, in a way that is 10 times more elegant, much better for maintainance and clarity, and less effort. afaik, the only down-side is that you don't get the delphi compiler in anything else than windows (ok, and linux). other than that, I see absolutely no advantage in the C language, and certainly no "fun" in it... for me, it is as fun as trying to start a fire by rubbing two sticks together. it can be done, and people have been doing it for thousands of years. but that was only because they did not have matches, not because they liked it. so, assuming that you had an efficient portable implementation of object pascal, do you really think *new* developers would opt to use C anyway ?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Clay Dowling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 7:53 PM > To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org > Subject: RE: [sqlite] Request for comment: Proposed SQLite API changes > > > Cariotoglou Mike said: > > > a crappy .H file. these people (c programmers) live in wasteland, I > > really admire them for the constructive way they use header files, > > include files, defines, make files, configure files and > what not,and > > still manage to write code that is write-once, compile everywhere. > > this is something not easily achieved, given the tools they have to > > work with. otoh, I live in delphi land from day 1, and I > *know* what > > they are missing... > > As somebody who lives in both worlds, C land isn't such a bad > place. It's a little like the difference between driving a > nice comfortable Ford Taurus (Delphi) and a BMW Z3 with a > stick shift (if you haven't done it, > do: you probably never realized that driving could be so > fun). I like driving both. But there are certain situations > where one is a lot better than the other, as I'm sure you're aware. > > Clay Dowling > -- > Simple Content Management > http://www.ceamus.com > > > >
