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From: Andrew Gabb <agabb@tpgi.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc
Subject: Re: Embarcadero Delphi XE2
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:21:10 +1030
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On 21/01/2012 10:59, battles wrote:
> I am thinking about purchasing the Delphi XE2 Starter Edition.  I
> program just as a hobby and have used D4 since it first came out.  The
> only thing that is making me hesitate is the .NET thing.  Can you
> write programs with XE2 just as you would with D4 or is there a
> learning curve, having to learn .NET nonsense also?  I assume that XE2
> is pascal like D4.

I've just updated a number of apps from D3 to XE2, without once thinking 
about .NET. Most of it worked as before, and the fixes were generally 
not difficult.

Andrew
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Andrew Gabb
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