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On 4/21/05, Phil!Gregory <phil_g@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: > * Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2005-04-21 11:11 -0500]: > > EXPN BDE >=20 > Borland Database Engine. It's how Borland's (and some other companies') > products do database access. Ideally, it's supposed to provide a nice, > implementation-independent way to use different databases. In practice, > it gives me lots of stuff to hate. But it's seriously deprecated now, isn't it? I've just started learning Delphi for work reasons and as far as I can see (which hasn't been very far yet) there are much better ways of doing easy DB access, no? Borland's stuff gets a lot of flack for being considered outdated - when I told Nat Torkington that my employer's product was built on Delphi and Interbase (now Firebird) he said, "Whoah, that's like when people tell you they're still writing COBOL..." But it's actually not bad: there are loads of good and cheap/free Delphi components (such as those by DevExpress, which are great) and Firebird is a pretty good open source RDBMS that's unfairly overshadowed by far worse but better-known databases (yes, MySQL, I'm looking at you). The problem is mainly that Borland's marketing efforts have utterly sucked for the past decade. (NOTE: The bearer of the enthusiasm displayed above retains the right to both withdraw it and stamp on it angrily once he has got to know and hate Delphi in more depth.) -- YozThere's stuff above here
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