My father celebrated 60 two weeks back and told me he bought license for new Delphi and loves it, I was quite surprised with the development he described.
I considered telling him that he could get most of the things (he also buys various components) for free today, but then.. he is about 5 years before retirement and won't relearn all his craft now.
Myself, I am not sure whether its nostalgia but I miss the experience of Delphi 7 I started with 20 years back. In many ways, the simplicity of VLC and the interface is still unbeaten.
> I considered telling him that he could get most of the things (he also buys various components) for free today, but then.. he is about 5 years before retirement and won't relearn all his craft now.
Free Pascal / Lazarus shouldn't be all that much to relearn.
> Myself, I am not sure whether its nostalgia but I miss the experience of Delphi 7 I started with 20 years back.
Delphi 1, 28 years now.
> In many ways, the simplicity of VLC and the interface is still unbeaten.
1) Yup.
2) VCL, btw.
3) Now that Embarcadero is hiking up the price of Delphi with every release, I think the standard-bearer for best librry / framework is probably the LCL, the Lazarus Component Library.
