Curious about Delphi

[bkam]

I hope this isn't too off-topic, but I am interested in this delphi language in which gknot is coded. I have not heard of it before, and I was wondering if there are more well-known languages to which it is comparable. The reason I ask is because I would love to contribute to the development of this software, but I don't know the language. I imagine there are at least some others who feel similarly. I am curious how difficult delphi is and what level code it is, and how much effort it would require from a person very computer literate but with only minor coding experience to learn. I apologize if this information is readily available elsewhere, but I am also interested in the complexity of the gknot code. I hope this is an acceptable post, because I have gathered from the other posts in this forum (and the activity on sourceforge) that len0x is doing the majority of the work.

If there is some way to contribute apart from coding, maybe an admin could also describe that here (apart from testing, which seems to be covered and I am already doing as we speak).

Just looking to help--if a new coder would be only burdensome to this project then of course I'll back off, but I believe I'm willing to make a reasonable time commitment to learning a language for such a project. If learning this language is a much bigger enterprise than I understand (i.e., it would be impossible for one to learn the language before this project has already hit final releases) then disregard this post, but I am interested.

Thank you,

[len0x]

FYI - Delphi (www.borland.com/deplhi) is basically based on object Pascal (I'm sure you've heard of it) but uses very nice VCL (visual class library) for rapid visual application development.

So if you know pascal (syntax at least), and familiar with OOP then it shouldn't be too hard to figure out how things work there...

Everybody is welcome to try and see if they can understand the code :) It is a bit messy at the moment, but hopefully as development team expanding there will be ppl specializing in rewriting the code into proper form.

P.S. I really appreciate you testing efforts (at SF). Testing is as important as development itself :)