From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-09-09T22:54:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Need help finding decent IDE/development environment for Windows

On 9/9/05, tony summerfelt <snowzone5@hotmail.com> wrote:
> graham wrote on 9/7/2005 7:56 PM:
> > will probably join the backwater of "almost" or niche languages like
> > Effiel, Forth, Modula-2, Pascal(?), Lisp, D..... (the list is endless).
> i'm not sure i'd put pascal in the 'backwater' category. maybe 'not
> used as much'. borland had the pc programming market pretty much tied
> up with turbo pascal 1. and the dos text mode interface that everyone
> else copied by version 3.
> 
> pascal lives on today as delphi. you could probably reproduce a
> complex delphi program just using vim, but i don't know of any delphi
> developer that would want to.

When I was doing some Delphi work 18 months ago, I did 90% of my
development outside of the Delphi environment and in vim. I used
Delphi for method completion and compiling only.

I work similarly with VisualStudio.

-austin
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