From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 27 0:33:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED68437B43C; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:33:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA61924; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:33:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Brad Knowles Cc: Siegbert Baude , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pulse poll at Borland References: <3073B3378589D411B21600508BAF32AA012345@EXCHANGE> <39D11CB1.78C07758@gmx.de> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 27 Sep 2000 09:33:36 +0200 In-Reply-To: Brad Knowles's message of "Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:09:56 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brad Knowles writes: > Me, I'll vote for BeOS. From everything I've heard, we would be > far better off without them, and I'll be happy if they waste their > time on a totally dead-end OS like that. I wouldn't call BeOS a dead-end OS. It suffers from dead-end marketing, but it's actually a very nice desktop/multimedia OS. Regarding what you've heard about Borland, maybe you'd be better off making up your own opinion instead of relying too much on what other people say. Delphi has a rather fanatical horde of opponents - mostly people who dislike RAD, and attempt to discredit Delphi because it's the oldest and most prominent RAD language - and far from all the criticism it has received is deserved. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message