Re: Revisiting the Gnome Bindings

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 16:04 +0200, Maciej Katafiasz wrote:

> 
> Hmm, one word - DON'T. Don't even think about Pascal, and _especially_
> about that abomination called "object" pascal, or I'll be forced to chop
> your head off, which, given long distance between us will be costly and
> inconvenient, so best stop discussion about Pascal right now

Well the worst ever language I ever learnt was Modula-2 (a horrible
implementation of object pascal) and that was an abomination so yes some
implementations of object pascal were dire. Delphi/Kylix is my favourite
programming language (yes its object pascal but without all the modula-2
limitations and crap) and its a million miles away from Modula-2 so
unless you've used it its unfair to chop my head off for suggesting it. 

If you have used Delphi before you would know it blows away any other OO
language out there both in performance (it utterly spanks C++) and in
RAD terms (its at least 3x quicker to program in than C++).

Oh and Delphi was the first to have a fully introspected component
system which SUN licensed from Borland to create Java beans and the
creator of Delphi now works for Microsoft and has created .Net for them
- C# is basically Delphi with C syntax and garbage collection and the D
language is yet another rehash of Delphi with C syntax.

Anyway lets not degenerate this into knocking languages (even though I
started it!)...

jamie.

> 
> Cheers,
> Maciej
>