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Hello, Marc!
>> I myself am eager to use BlackBox for projects I'm paid for. I want
>> to give up Delphi and work only in BlackBox.
MM> I find it interesting that in the search for a new development
MM> environment, that you chose Blackbox. I guess I've thought
MM> (for years) that the only people who'd be interested in Blackbox
MM> at this point are those who already have a significant amount
MM> of code written in it. I would think that if I was starting
MM> from scratch, I would probably choose something that was
MM> being more actively supported/developed/used. I'm not
MM> sure what environment that would be exactly (C#? java? zonnon?),
MM> but I don't think it would be Blackbox.
First of all, I was not in search for a new development
environment. I work in Delphi for many years now and it was just the
thing for me. And I will keep using it, because I can't just throw
away programs I wrote, I have to support them. Then one winter day
in a computer hardwafe shop I met a friend of mine. We had a talk,
he told me about some interesting things he recently discovered.
Namely, some russian superprocessor and the language Oberon. Later
that day he emailed me some articles about Oberon, including the
language report by N. Wirth. I fell in love with it. It was so
simple and powerful, it changed my vision on object-oriented
languages forever.
After that I tried everything: Plug-In Oberon for Windows, Blue
Bottle, POW!, xds, BlackBox. I didn't like BlackBox the first time.
Too heavy menu bar, superfluous reserved words. I thought XDS with
its optimizing compiler will be my choice, but I didn't have enough
time to seriously work with it at the moment.
Later another man (Alexey Cheremkhin) advised me to give BlackBox a
second chance, which I did and didn't regret ever since. The
language complications turned out to be rather well-grounded, the
framework was good, the CPC site was a big source of code you may
not have to re-invent. There were some UI issues, which made the
product look immature: it blocked background tasks now and then,
the visual trash problem. I tried to complain here but no one seemed
to care much, left alone fix it. (Except for Marco Ciot, who shared
his patch for HostPorts.Rider.Input, and who I keep thanking ever
since.) So, I started digging it on my own.
And I did until the very recent times. And I learned a lot from that
digging. Model-View-Controller separation? I'd never know that
pattern if I was still using Delphi.
I think it's about time for me to create something useful with that
framework, and see how good is it in real action.
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Alexander
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