Dominique Louis wrote:
Hi Dennis,
Dennis Landi wrote:
Evidently, although Borland has ported Delphi to .Net, they have no plans to create a 64-bit native compiler. In fact, they have licensed the .Net compiler from MS. They seem to be getting out of the native compiler biz altogether.
I don't think the above statement is accurate.
Borland have licenced the C# .NET compiler for their C# Builder product as they did not want to reinvent the wheel, but they are writing a new compiler for the Delphi.NET product which generates .NET executables, which, I believe, should run on other .NET platforms ( WinCE - with the Compact Framework when M$ sorts it out, MacOS under FreeBSD and probably even Linux ).
The Delphi.NET compiler will support quite a few new language constructs so that it is compatible with languages like C#. Most, if not all of these constructs should also be available in Delphi 8 so that migration from .NET to Native Win32 applications can be facilitated.
So they currently are not getting out of the native compiler biz. At least not with their Pascal product.
Before diving blindly into .NET, I recommend careful reading of http://aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html, which is by the way a fascinating analysis of the computer industry in general.
Regards,
Adriaan van Os