> Disadvantages of Delphi: > 2. It's closed source, if it's buggy you're lost.
Main problems comes from RTL and VCL, not a compiler - it is stable, at least for D7. As D7 Pro+ comes with RTL and VCL sources, it is easy to fix and recompile both. And there is many excelent free and OpenSource third-party components available. D7 IDE however is only problematic for non-English users (regarding saving it's own translations codes in .DFM when developing applications and using executables on different localized machines). > 6. Runs on machines with relatively low memory, compared to D7 (e.g. > 256MB for development, 64MB on target here) D7 run IDE under 128MB and work without resource problems with any project complexity or number of added components. > 7. Saves you a huge amount of licence costs. Buying Delphi Studio 7 Pro was good investion so far. As the future is unknown for now, serching alternative in FPC and Lazarus. > 8. Has a mailing lists with a lot of funny people to talk to. (As well taking banal insults...) Even not directly provided personal support, Borland have excellent suppors from newsgroups (Delphi users and TeamB people). _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
