The problem is I don't want to waste my time with Pascal syntax because I don't see it in generally available support material.
While I don't find it syntactically pleasing either, the language is far from dead. As you've done for several years now, you view every language as dead or transitioning to Java. In reality, there are a substantial number of developers committed to Delphi, and they are going to be there for years. As I've pointed out to you in the past, these changes in language preferences happen over a period of years, even decades, and not in months as you seem to think (remember a few years ago when you were proclaiming ALL other languages to be dead in favor of Java, which would have taken over the market within mere months? ... where's that now?)
There continues to be an active secondary market in components for Delphi, it clearly offers the best development environment for the sizable AS/400 market, and there are a LOT of strong software products written in Delphi (a lot more than the number of serious Java projects in use, I'd add).
The point is, those who have developed sizable projects in Delphi are in no hurry to move to Java. While Java offers certain benefits in limited circumstances, there simply isn't the payoff present to make people want to can thousands of lines of working code in favor of an environment that offers some new features wrapped with horrible performance.
In addition, those who are developing with modern-day tools such as Delphi & BCB are almost insensitive to the language anyway -- you have to write so little of it to get the job done. Only developers who have not been able to see their ways clear of MSFT need be concerned about it. Delphi, c++, Java, whatever -- it just really doesn't make much difference.
What all this means to INPR, I don't know. Fundamentally, they continue to have the best language technologies of anyone out there -- although they do need something new in the lineup. The recent interest in Linux may do it, or something else. I see no need to assume they will be bought. |
