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DJMaze · 03-09-2006, 04:57 AM

I don't have a vision for it at the moment since i've moved to cross-platform c++ coding myself, just because i want my apps to work on Linux and OSX.
However i do see many benefits that were already similar in the Borland products like 'property' = BCB __property.
Other stuff like abstract classes and interfaces is also cool especialy when you are writing cross-platform and need several copies of a class for each underlying OS (win32window.h, x11window.h).

It would be hard for M$ to put patents on it, and if they do its probably in the CLR (their version of things).

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DJMaze Senior Contributor Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 672	I don't have a vision for it at the moment since i've moved to cross-platform c++ coding myself, just because i want my apps to work on Linux and OSX. However i do see many benefits that were already similar in the Borland products like 'property' = BCB __property. Other stuff like abstract classes and interfaces is also cool especialy when you are writing cross-platform and need several copies of a class for each underlying OS (win32window.h, x11window.h). It would be hard for M$ to put patents on it, and if they do its probably in the CLR (their version of things).