And then I discovered Visual Basic (in its DOS and Windows) and I was able to do buttons and forms and tigers.. This has a ton of knock on effects for long term maintainability. It was a gamble on their part, but I can't say I'd have gone the other way. In my eyes it was a huge winner for Delphi over Visual Studio products, although I never really liked the pascal syntax... Delphi/Pascal and Wolfram mathematica are the two things I point people to when we talk about documentation. Delphi 3 introduced me to programming in my teen years. They can be resurrected if forgotten, and can be recorded (by increasingly better means) so that they won’t be overlooked. I was amazed the VCL managed to insulate the user from most of it. Some things I have made in Delphi require a LOT of stirng manipulation, which I could have absolutly not have done without the TStrings data structure. Lua, LuaJIT provide the same sort of kick, in my opinion. 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With class helpers new functionality can be introduced to core RTL and VCL classes without changing the original source code of the RTL or VCL. :D. Delphi takes it to a ridiculous level though. The compiler is optimizing and single pass. Isn't Delphi currently hosted only on Windows? Or even approached imho. The Delphi Technique is a method used to estimate the likelihood and outcome of future events. Renaming does not work for commented .h and .m file name The IDE was fast. The VCL was an early adopter of dependency injection or inversion of control; it uses a re-usable component model, extensible by the developer. Code is translated directly to native code per compilation unit, and since there is no "header file hell", each unit is an independent part whose generated code can be cached in its entirety, so during a single compile, if you have changed just one unit, the compiler only needs to compile that unit (plus dependencies) and then perform linking. The visual forms designer has the option of using either the Visual Component Library (VCL) for pure Windows development or the FireMonkey (FMX) framework for cross-platform development. While not Delphi, I really like it and I am playing with it now, thanks for mentioning it. I always wondered why a devshop I've worked at used Delphi. Tables will automatically start showing it, forms will magically contain the new field. It's also designed to compile fast and to native code. I compiled my first thing, and I automatically looked of parasitic files VB style.. Nope. Afterwards, Borland extended Turbo Pascal with Apple's agreement and then Turbo Pascal 5.5 was born. Those languages have standard libraries with rather minimalist APIs, so I don't see the bloat there. Finally, FreePascal and GNU Pascal are ongoing open source projects, providing versions of Pascal freely available to the public. Microsoft bought not only Anders but also about 30 other Borland developers over the course of several years. Microsoft's compiler had nothing visual about it. Yet, if you were to propose Delphi as a development platform, it would in most cases be career suicide. The first time I tried it, I thought "Hmm, this is Pascal !". It may not be trendy but it's a really quality environment for its use case. It lets you build GUI software really quickly. (They did have a Delphi XE Starter Edition, not sure if it is still there.) For all the bad things I've said about it ... it is nice. You can direct the solution to a language/platform you wish to learn, and work like a dog to develop the new skills and build a great piece of software in this new language. Still, the Delphi method can be used most successfully in forecasting single scalar indicators. It is unstable to say the least. Unicode was retrofitted into PHP and then the entire effort was abandoned, so yes, i think anything would be more elegant. Archived. At the time of release its features were quite innovative, and very accessible to the Turbo Pascal programmers (like me!) Delphi has characteristics similar to prediction markets as both are structured approaches that aggregate diverse opinions from groups. Reimplementing a delphi application of a hundred thousand lines is probably a thousand man year project with a "modern" web stack. And why should it? Edit: But I will say this: I do believe unicode was introduced into Delphi as elegantly as possible. Debugging and editing was excellent. Since Borland Developer Studio 2006 there are functions to locate memory leaks. Interbase 6.5 was becoming FireBirdSQL. I used delphi extensively in the mid 90's, from the 1.0 release until about 2001. I look at tools for DOM manipulation right now - and I look at what people dream of doing with the DOM, especially with apps. Previous versions of RAD Studio also included HTML5 Builder and other bundled products. Judging just by current job postings, Rails 3ish might be entrenched for a short while too. Not worth it. This is why codebases that are based on Delphi somehow never get ported away from it. I was overwhelmed by the feeling that designer of MFC doesn't want me to get anything done but instead wants to take me on neverending tour of the peculiarities of underlying libraries that were built for 16bit ancient windows. It needed not a lot of knowledge to make buttons and forms, etc. Microsoft snatched him from Borland. 1. Contrary to widespread discussions of Delphi been used for legacy products, I have been fortunate to spend my entire career on new Delphi projects, inventing products and services over it’s 25 years of existence. The insanely high prices aren't helping either though. Mathematica had details and applications for each function, while Delphi/BP had a well written explanation of what the function would do and how to use it. Even weirder is that in 2002 the Delphi community developed a python 2.7/3 type schism over UI changes and .NET inclusion and a large portion of the community refused to adopt new releases. I was at a convention and it really did appear that Kylix had a valid foot forward. 2. For dedicated string types Delphi handles memory management without programmer intervention. All work perfectly well on all versions of Windows from 2k to 10. It wasn't my first language, but it was the first language I become truly comfortable and productive in. They share many core components, notably the IDE, the VCL and FMX frameworks, and much of the runtime library. . I sometimes wonder what Delphi would look like today, had Anders not joined the MS fold. I read that he got $1 million (or more?) Delphi 10.4.1 Sydney (Sydney Update 1) - September 2020 - Addressed key customer requests, 850+ enhancements and fixes, Windows Server 2019 support, Multi-monitor and 4k scaling improvements, Parallel programming component updates . Now I know. Delphi is a software product that uses the Delphi dialect of the Object Pascal programming language and provides an integrated development environment (IDE) for rapid application development of desktop, mobile, web, and console software,[3] currently developed and maintained by Embarcadero Technologies. I was a Turbo Pascal user since version 3.0 all the way up to the first versions of Delphi. It delivers executables that need no dependencies. If you want correct UTF-8 behaviour in string functions then instead of using libc or string_ functions, you must pass the character set as an additional parameter to specialised mb_ string functions instead. A pity. joj vidjao sam ti ovaj nick na krstarici jbt :). Surprisingly, I really enjoyed it. I've used C++Builder (the 200x versions) and I really can't recommend it. Database support is a key feature and is provided by FireDAC (Database Access Components). By the looks of it you're using the optimal solution to your problem. Message handlers are implemented by tagging a method of a class with the integer constant of the message to handle. That said, I've been using XE3, maybe the more recent versions are better but it seems that Embarcadero have been focusing on getting into the cross-platform mobile game (one which I think Xamarin/Phonegap/Titanium, etc are playing better) rather than increasing the quality of the tools or enhancing the language. Talk about going against the grain. 13. Elegant is in the eye of the beholder I suppose. Putting all that aside: is there a benefit to be had, speed wise by using object instead of class? 3. XE6 may have some improvements under Embarcadero's "QPS" (Quality/Performance/Stability) project. But in an afternoon with VB6, I could bang out a good first prototype for SO many projects that in many cases, ended up being "good enough" that we never needed to go back and re-do it "properly" in VC6. At least for boring internal enterprise apps within corporations, the new languages/platforms and especially modern program design paradigms with their multiple tiers & supporting libraries, multiple levels of indirection resulting in 30 level deep call stacks, etc results in productivity perhaps 1/4 of what you could achieve with a product like Delphi. Yes yes, they are not 'high' if you are a fortune 1000, however, they are high compared to what everyone is used to now. The thing is that the supplied VCL is what is so amazing. Pascal was originally developed as a general-purpose language "suitable for expressing the fundamental constructs known at the time in a concise and logical way", and "its implementation was to be efficient and competitive with existing FORTRAN compilers"[7] but without low-level programming facilities or access to hardware. And so, much like the mainframes running in the data centers of banks/insurance/etc companies, delphi is probably still driving a fair number of business logic applications. Awesome ... appreciate your perspective. Now that time has moved on, I no longer use Delphi at all, and rarely use FreePascal. It did a beautiful code/visual synchronization that. Yes I'm quite aware of the history but the fact that borland/embarcadero choses to call both delphi doesn't really change what I said though, every where besides the marketing of this IDE clearly considers object pascal [1] as the language (with several implementations/compilers), and delphi [2] as the IDE. And super fast. I'd be interested in learning more about such features. Then I think back to what Delphi was doing in early 90s - then I wonder if just some of that magic was available for building apps on the DOM we'd be in a better place. Can you describe what things Xcode lacks that you miss from Delphi? In Turbo Pascal for Windows we used object and today you can still use object to create an object.. One thing I've been wondering about lately is if Free Pascal is a good alternative to C or Go for shipping self-contained static binaries to run on *nix. I kind of wonder how many devs still are working on Delphi and if they are not only just bugfixing... Their whole "there are only X paying customers left, therefore we need to charge $3000" stinks of someone who is preparing for failure, instead of growth. I only wrote it as a hobby as a teenager but compared to trying to write Visual Basic or C or Java on Windows it was a real dream. In Germany's case mind you, not sure about other countries. The main code base is handled by one developer. In Delphi 10.3, with per-monitor DPI enabled, this usually 'just works'. Delphi compiles source code almost as fast as it can read it from disk. One of my most frequently used Windows app is in Delphi. There are so many cool geegaws out there today, it would be a shame to not use them such that you can include that experience on your resume (to hell with the additional costs and complexity, let someone else worry about that. It was an incredible effort. It is definitely inspired by Delphi/ObjectPascal. They were distributed, fairly complex backends connected using DCOM and interfacing with Windows technologies like TAPI and MAPI. The difference between Delphi and C++ back then felt a lot like Rails versus, say, J2EE. It just worked. That kind of thing would be relevant and interesting to devs. who were a big part of Borland's customer base for tools. I think Embarcadero is seriously hurting themselves with their bunker mentality. If they are, what UI library are they using to write user interfaces? Third-party components (sometimes with full source code) and tools to enhance the IDE or for other Delphi related development tasks are available, some free of charge. IIRC, it was free or had a free trial, and I had tried it a little. In my opinion Delphi is better than .Net as it's a native language but the RAD software is expensive and I like Visual Studio better. Thanks for those recommendations, I'll check them out. Total Commander. 3. Learn more", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Delphi_(software)&oldid=996147708, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. This is supposed to be flexible and "good" design, but here's the catch : changing one tiny thing in the backend requires you to change (e.g. Delphi was one of the greatest development environment ever created when you just "needed to get shit done". 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