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Member since:2005-06-30
Ruby on Rails isn't in the same league as J2EE or ASP.NET. Comparing them as such is not sensible.
Further, Lazarus is not comparable either. Delphi is on the road to becoming a .NET product. Heh, in both cases you compare a much less complicated, much less finished, functionally incomparable technology to something else and claim them as superior. They are what they are.
Member since:2005-07-06
Ruby on Rails isn't in the same league as J2EE or ASP.NET. Comparing them as such is not sensible.
Well according to someone at IBM it is:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/wa-rubyonrails/...
Further, Lazarus is not comparable either. Delphi is on the road to becoming a .NET product. Heh, in both cases you compare a much less complicated, much less finished, functionally incomparable technology to something else and claim them as superior. They are what they are.
Well as a professional I use the ordinary version of Delphi for all my windows desktop programming and it wipes the floor with both java and C#. Delphi is 10 years old mature technology and its a professional RAD tool unlike the amateurish immature C#. In fact the over hyped C# is only good for ASP stuff but on the desktop its a joke with unbelievable amounts of memory being consumed as well as painful start up times - my customers would never forgive me if I gave them that. With Delphi based apps, all my customers are very happy.
Member since:>For server apps, ruby on rails trounces both J2EE and C#/ASP productivity wise.
Yeah the big enterprises will replaces their old .NET and J2EE solutions to the new fantastic ruby on rail :-))))) If you see the job search sites, every company search ruby, python or TCL programmers...
>For desktop apps, Delphi (or the open source variant Free Pascal) is a far better tool as it offers the same component based RAD.
Delphi 2k5 is also .NET based, it can create win32 applications but this tool is focused to .NET. The FreePascal (with lazarus) only a very nice toy, but not useable for real application development (if your app is bigger then Hello World). And the VCL is also a very primitive toy if you compared to .NET or Java class libs.
The only one comparable technolgy to .NET the J2EE, but IMHO the .NET is better, and the future of .NET is more certain.
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2005-07-06
For server apps, ruby on rails trounces both J2EE and C#/ASP productivity wise.
For desktop apps, Delphi (or the open source variant Free Pascal) is a far better tool as it offers the same component based RAD but unlike c# and java is non-bloating, has higher performance and thanks to its smart linker has no external dependencies/frameworks.