Comments on: .NET Developer by Day, Delphi Hacker by Night http://www.gefvert.org/blog/archives/80 Just a scratchpad for thoughts, reflections, and stuff. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:12:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mats.gefvert http://www.gefvert.org/blog/archives/80#comment-86 mats.gefvert Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:20:52 +0000 http://www.matsgefvert.se/blog/archives/80#comment-86 First of all, Delphi, or its predecessor Pascal, has been around since the early 1980's. Programs written for Turbo Pascal 7.0 can still be compiled and run in Delphi. How's that for stability? Second, there are open-source alternatives for Delphi if you want it. There's a FreePascal movement (Lazarus?) aiming to be a complete IDE and replacement. And while its not "open source", the full VCL source code is included with every release of Delphi. And, third, there is no sign that Borland/DevCo will put it to sleep, quite the contrary. Delphi is a profitable product, with a strong community behind it. If you think the end is near, you haven't been following events too closely. P.S. It actually is a bit greek, because there's a huge database server called Oracle, and when the engineers tried to come up with a good name for the new product, someone said "If you want to see the Oracle, go to Delphi." And thus the product was named. :) ... it's a pun on Delphi's database capabilities. First of all, Delphi, or its predecessor Pascal, has been around since the early 1980′s. Programs written for Turbo Pascal 7.0 can still be compiled and run in Delphi. How’s that for stability?

Second, there are open-source alternatives for Delphi if you want it. There’s a FreePascal movement (Lazarus?) aiming to be a complete IDE and replacement. And while its not “open source”, the full VCL source code is included with every release of Delphi.

And, third, there is no sign that Borland/DevCo will put it to sleep, quite the contrary. Delphi is a profitable product, with a strong community behind it. If you think the end is near, you haven’t been following events too closely.

P.S. It actually is a bit greek, because there’s a huge database server called Oracle, and when the engineers tried to come up with a good name for the new product, someone said “If you want to see the Oracle, go to Delphi.” And thus the product was named. :) … it’s a pun on Delphi’s database capabilities.

]]> By: Elisabeth http://www.gefvert.org/blog/archives/80#comment-84 Elisabeth Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:19:00 +0000 http://www.matsgefvert.se/blog/archives/80#comment-84 It's sweet how something that sounds like Greek for one person can be like christmas time for another :) It’s sweet how something that sounds like Greek for one person can be like christmas
time for another :)

]]> By: Markus http://www.gefvert.org/blog/archives/80#comment-83 Markus Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:02:41 +0000 http://www.matsgefvert.se/blog/archives/80#comment-83 ...until Borland, or whatever it is called today, puts your little friend to sleep for good. :) That's why you shouldn't become to attached to closed source programming environments. …until Borland, or whatever it is called today, puts your little friend to sleep for good. :)

That’s why you shouldn’t become to attached to closed source programming environments.

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