22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks

kweinber wrote: post #4

After the death of Python, Oracle and Delphi go really well together... give it a shot if you want to see the future. Edit: this is a historical reference... search for "Oracle Delphi Python"

Missing /s tag? Im not sure if the comment is serious.

Re: 22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks

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Post by fredsted » Wed, Feb 15, 2017, 12:08 PM UTC

Sometimes I kind of miss Delphi 7. The way it makes it easy to create apps made programming so fun.

Such a shame it went downhill after the .NET stuff.

Re: 22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks

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Post by mrded » Wed, Feb 15, 2017, 12:08 PM UTC

Delphi 6 was my first one :)

Re: 22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks

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Post by gilgoomesh » Wed, Feb 15, 2017, 12:09 PM UTC

pryelluw wrote: post #5

kweinber wrote: post #4

After the death of Python, Oracle and Delphi go really well together... give it a shot if you want to see the future. Edit: this is a historical reference... search for "Oracle Delphi Python"

Missing /s tag? Im not sure if the comment is serious.

I think the comment is referring to Pythia, aka "the Oracle of Delphi", who could supposedly see the future:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythia

Re: 22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks

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Post by binaryapparatus » Wed, Feb 15, 2017, 12:09 PM UTC

I am bit older than average so I used Delphi in its golden days. Even today few of the old customers need old apps maintained so I keep Delphi 7 ready.

It _is_ great IDE/language.

Re: 22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks

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Post by melling » Wed, Feb 15, 2017, 12:10 PM UTC

"Fastest compiler -- 85,000 lines per minute"

What do you get 22 years later on an Intel i7?