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Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 10:45 am
With an experience in fortran programming from the University of Oslo as a student in the late 1960's and extensive experience on different high and low level languages and differnt platforms we have to admit that Embarcadero's proprietary platform RAD Studio (bought from Borland) XE
http://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio
is our preferred rapid application development platform.
was developed in Delphi.
We know Embarcadero's C++ platform from the early days of Turobo C++, via C++ OWL (Object Windows Library), C++Builder 3 to todays C++Builder XE platform.
On the home page http://www.oopschool.com/ of this forum, you can download two PDF documents we wrote as an introduction to C++Builder 2009 and C++Builder 2010 professional.
http://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio
is our preferred rapid application development platform.
Note that Delphi is Object Pascal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Pascal . Here http://www.freepascal.org/ is the place to start if you want to learn Pascal. Skype http://www.skype.com/ recently bought by MicrosoftWith RAD Studio XE, you can:
Rapidly build ultra-rich, ultra-fast applications across multiple platforms
Build applications faster with pre-built components and drag-and-drop visual design
Future-proof your applications with native connectivity to 9 major databases and ready-made components for cloud connectivity
Utilize thousands of free and commercial components for user interfaces, database, multi-tier, web apps, industry specific and more
RAD Studio includes:
Delphi and C++Builder for rapidly building high-performance native Windows applications
Delphi Prism for rapidly building .NET and cross-platform Mono applications which can target Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
RadPHP, a complete PHP IDE and the only choice for rapid drag-and-drop visual development of PHP web applications
Access to previous versions of Delphi (7, 2007-2010), C++Builder (6, 2007-2010), Delphi Prism (2009-2011) at no extra cost
RAD Studio XE is available in Professional, Enterprise and Architect editions. For details on the differences between the editions, see the Product Editions page and Feature Matrix.
Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 2011-5.DTLMicrosoft bought Skype to make a big move into the IP communications space, as well as for its huge audience and its peer-to-peer video chat, says a source who was involved in the deal.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-micr ... z1NY2bM94W
was developed in Delphi.
We know Embarcadero's C++ platform from the early days of Turobo C++, via C++ OWL (Object Windows Library), C++Builder 3 to todays C++Builder XE platform.
On the home page http://www.oopschool.com/ of this forum, you can download two PDF documents we wrote as an introduction to C++Builder 2009 and C++Builder 2010 professional.