Re: Controversial question re: Turbo and .Net
In article <44dc53e6$
XXXX@XXXXX.COM>, i.rather@not says...
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- the code is utilizing something in .Net that doesn't exist in W32, it
would cost a lot of time (= money) to re-implement that in W32.
The latter it would seem - specifically CodeDOM.
Which raises a whole different set of questions (see elsewhere, but in
summary:)
CodeDOM doesn't really support the Delphi language very well, and in any
case no parsers existed so Borland had to write parsers.
It seems a strange decision to go to all that trouble to be able to use
something that still (as far as I can see) wasn't going to be up to the
job without further significant work.
I can not see that it would have been much more work than was already
required to be undertaken to have implemented an alternative which would
have a) done the job perfectly and b) would have been under Borland's
control so if it needed to change in the future they didn't have to wait
around for a framework component update from Microsoft simply in order
to deliver features in their OWN IDE!
<shrug>
Then of course there is the Together stuff (J#), but that should be
optionally installable, not mandatory.
<shrug again>
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Jolyon Smith