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[Darwinian]

I feel I must rush to my beloved Delphi's defence! Lot's of people seem to say this about Delphi. It's a bit like the wine ponce's who say that sparkling wine isn't a patch on Champagne or those idiots from Top Gear (car ponce's) who, no matter how brilliant the car will slate it if it's a Lexus.

It was the same on the Amiga when I was using GFA Basic and everyone else was using C. Get a proper language they'd say, even though I was producing brilliant software that always made it onto the coverdisks of all the major mags and was making over £1000 a week, back in the early 1990's!

So, back to my mistress, the Delphi R.A.D. environment. From the point of view of a freelance programmer of mainly desktop apps who has no intention of ever working for anyone else, this is a superb system. It's incredibly well supported with a hard core of loyal and stubborn users who refuse to use anything else, myself included. And when I do run into the odd problem, like this one, it's not the language that is at fault but my ignorance of the subject.

And when, at long last, my project is finished I shall be proudly stating, "Written using Delphi 7" in the About Box.

So there