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> -----Original Message-----
> From: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy> Behalf Of Rex Couture
>
> The question is not whether BB _can_ be used to create
> freestanding applications, but how it is actually being used,
> and why. Some quotes from recent messages follow. What's
> going on here?
>
The answer is more related to political rather than technical
considerations. The same sort of discussion occurs all the time in the
Delphi (i.e. Borland's Object Pascal development system) newsgroups. Many
customers and IT departments are not well-informed about the relative
strengths and weaknesses of programming languages and development tools so
they go for the perceived long-term safety of the major 'brand-names' with
large advertising budgets e.g. Microsoft. It is similar to the behaviour or
sheep, or even worse, lemmings. This is ironic in a way as Microsoft is
putting huge amounts of development resources to try to minimise its own
dependence on C and C++. Unfortunately C#, which still has some of the ugly
remnants of C in it, has signs of being the language which will become
dominant, rather than an Algol-heritage language like Component Pascal.
In the meantime, we should be secretly happy that we have a competitive edge
in developer productivity, if not marketing, by making use of excellent
tools like Delphi, BlackBox and Component Pascal.
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp
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