Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins
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Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins
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Re: Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins
#21995 is a very important year in the history of Delphi. On February 14 of that year the first version of Delphi was released for 16-bit Windows 3.1 as a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool.
Delphi came as a departure from its predecessor, Borland’s Turbo Pascal for Windows. Turbo Pascal combined an editor, debugger, compiler, linker, and libraries, and evolved into Object Pascal after support for objects was added. Delphi / Object Pascal created a foundation for app development that still inspires and supports application developers today.
Re: Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins
#31995 is a very important year in the history of Delphi. On February 14 of that year the first version of Delphi was released for 16-bit Windows 3.1 as a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool. Delphi came as a departure from its predecessor, Borland’s Turbo Pascal for Windows. Turbo Pascal combined an editor, debugger, compiler, linker, and libraries, and evolved into Object Pascal after support for objects was add…
And is apparently still available https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi
Re: Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins
#4And 20 years later .NET is finally catching up with Delphi on AOT support, as NGEN was only meant to improve startup times, while other toochains were dropped along the way (Singularity, Midori, .NET Native).
Happy birthday Delphi!
Re: Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins
#5Now only the name remains as a ghost...
I loved so much Delphi when it was still like Delphi 5.
In my opinion, GUI dev was so great and easy at that time. So much easier than today for desktop or web. For exemple, just having a reactive web app today is such a pain in the ass, when it was so easy then with component anchors and such.
Re: Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins
#6This brings back memories. Back in the late eighties I used various programming languages for fun (TI59, 6502 assembler, BBC Basic), but when I switched to Pascal, a lot of things changed for me. At that time the schools used the predecessor of Turbo Pascal, called PolyPascal - but some time later they switched to Turbo Pascal. I have used Delphi almost from the beginning and have used various versions through time.
I don't always remember the system for good tings. The article mentions Oracle, and I do remember we had a hard time getting Delphi to connect properly to Oracle databases in the late nineties. This was mostly done through BDE. The official definition of that abbreviation is Borlands Database Engine, but a lot of people called it Borlands Database Error.
A few years ago I got back to Delphi and what a please it is to use. The latest version of Delphi allows you to produce native code to several different platforms, and it's certainly still Rapid Application Development.
But unfortunately it's not available to everybody due to the prices.
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#7Reading this is a strange roller coaster of emotions. Happy to read about good old times, angry about the turn of event, and sadden about the current state.
At the time I thought Delphi was ( and may be still is ) the Best-in-class and a target to beat for all other RAD and IDE. The future is going to be so much better for Desktop App development. Instead we have descended to Desktop Apps with Electron.
Re: Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins
#8This brings back memories. Back in the late eighties I used various programming languages for fun (TI59, 6502 assembler, BBC Basic), but when I switched to Pascal, a lot of things changed for me. At that time the schools used the predecessor of Turbo Pascal, called PolyPascal - but some time later they switched to Turbo Pascal. I have used Delphi almost from the beginning and have used various versions through time.…
If you remember IDAPI?
Re: Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins
#9Reading this is a strange roller coaster of emotions. Happy to read about good old times, angry about the turn of event, and sadden about the current state. At the time I thought Delphi was ( and may be still is ) the Best-in-class and a target to beat for all other RAD and IDE. The future is going to be so much better for Desktop App development. Instead we have descended to Desktop Apps with Electron.
Not only that, the state of Web app tooling as well, juggling raw HTML/CSS/JS to fake a desktop like UI.
There are low code tools for Web, but they tend to be only for enterprise pockets.
Re: Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins
#10Now only the name remains as a ghost... I loved so much Delphi when it was still like Delphi 5. In my opinion, GUI dev was so great and easy at that time. So much easier than today for desktop or web. For exemple, just having a reactive web app today is such a pain in the ass, when it was so easy then with component anchors and such.
I live that experience still within Java and .NET ecosystems.