Re: Delphi connection ?

On 29/09/2009 13:39, Merlin Moncure wrote:

> The BDE was terrible, as were the native drives that Borland provided
> with Delphi (Paradox, etc).  3rd party drives (Zeos) eventually
> arrived to fix the problem but by that point Delphi had lost the war
> with Visual Basic.  That's really tragic, because even early versions
> of Delphi/c++ builder are STILL the best win32 development tools out
> there in many ways...especially designing interfaces.

I fully agree.... I still use Delphi 6 a lot, and there's an ease of use
about it that leaves other IDEs I've used in the shade. It's just a pity
that it's so expensive....

Ray.

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