Special thanks to Mr. Allen Baur for hints on his twitter feed. The article "Tea Leaves for 64-bit Delphi, part 2" is updated with several corrections.
Based on mathematical deductions, educated guessing your reviewer now has the most accurate portrayal of the situation for Delphi/64.
Misfortune telling?
The original roadmap had Delphi/64 on mid-2009, then end of 2010, then first quarter of 2011, now first half of 2011. Lot of people renewed their SA and updated their versions of Delphi (from 2009 to 2010) only to be disappointed when Embaracdero released Delphi XE with no trace of x64-bit compiler and with the need to later renew the SA soon since almost 250 days passed (or, by the time x64 is out, there will be need to renew SA).
Suppose you go to a fortune teller. The person says, I forsee a great turn of events, it will erase all the bad karma you had and make you better. You pay the fortune teller Euros 2500 the first time. The fortune teller tells that you will have a great future and demands another 800 Euros to clearly see your fortune. Then another 800 Euros to see the future again, then another 800 Euros. You find out that most of the things predicted turn to no effect or things gets worse and worse. How confident are you going to hand over another 1600 or maybe 2400 euros (800x3) to the fortune teller when almost all the predictions become false?
It only takes a few minutes to write an article that fairly and clearly depicts the state of Delphi/64 today. Since Embarcadero has not bothered to do so, your reviewer does it with plain simple language.
Based on mathematical deductions, educated guessing your reviewer now has the most accurate portrayal of the situation for Delphi/64.
Misfortune telling?
The original roadmap had Delphi/64 on mid-2009, then end of 2010, then first quarter of 2011, now first half of 2011. Lot of people renewed their SA and updated their versions of Delphi (from 2009 to 2010) only to be disappointed when Embaracdero released Delphi XE with no trace of x64-bit compiler and with the need to later renew the SA soon since almost 250 days passed (or, by the time x64 is out, there will be need to renew SA).
Suppose you go to a fortune teller. The person says, I forsee a great turn of events, it will erase all the bad karma you had and make you better. You pay the fortune teller Euros 2500 the first time. The fortune teller tells that you will have a great future and demands another 800 Euros to clearly see your fortune. Then another 800 Euros to see the future again, then another 800 Euros. You find out that most of the things predicted turn to no effect or things gets worse and worse. How confident are you going to hand over another 1600 or maybe 2400 euros (800x3) to the fortune teller when almost all the predictions become false?
It only takes a few minutes to write an article that fairly and clearly depicts the state of Delphi/64 today. Since Embarcadero has not bothered to do so, your reviewer does it with plain simple language.
4 comments:
Still wait for 2nd half of 2011. Hope our heads will not spin around, asking WTF, where
is 64-bit? Delphi ForNever?
Some info about Delphi x64 and Delphi X/Plat will come from the Embarcadero's "horse mouth" (no offence) David I in about 2 weeks now according to this blog:
David I is heading down under to Australia March 21-25
Just want to highlight some of the areas that will be covered: Delphi for 64-bit Windows, Delphi Native Code for cross platform development and Delphi Native Code for cross platform development... so I expect Embarcadero will obviously have some "meat" behind all of these...
A bit off-topic, but just wanted to point you to a "Delphi Loyalist" (sort of "negative" of you :)...) ... so maybe some cross-pollination of the ideas you have about advancing Delphi might benefit the overall community
Bringing Delphi into the 21st Century
Delphi is actually a time machine, you can go back in time, there is only one small problem back to the future ...
Regarding C++Builder - actually you will never learn C++ with it....
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