Subj : Pascal compilers
To   : Silva Dolla
From : Nightfox
Date : Sat Aug 06 2011 11:46:00

  Re: Pascal compilers
  By: Silva Dolla to Nightfox on Thu Aug 04 2011 13:38:14

 > Delphi is not dead!  Don't believe anyone who says otherwise...

Yeah, I've heard some people say Delphi/Pascal is their favorite programming
language, or one of their favorites.

 > Back in 08 I was part of a team where we created new and better ways to perf
 > certain actions, which we subsequently able to patent...  We determined sinc
 > the way delphi generates native code, it was the best way to go.

That's cool.  I'm curious though, why Delphi rather than C++?  C++ generates
native code too.

 > I will admit I was unable to write a proper device driver for windoze xp in
 > delphi... I had to go back to good ole C...

I imagine a device driver could be written in C++ too?

Nightfox

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