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Borland Releases Delphi 7

Posted by timothy on from the delphi-and-kylix-sound-like-minivan-names dept.

sebmol writes: "Borland has released version 7 of its superb development tool Delphi. Unusual for Borland, they have added quite a few extras to their release such as a complete (!) copy of Kylix 3, Borland's port of Delphi to Linux. The price is somewhat affordable, especially if you can take advantage of their upgrade offers. For the first time since Borland became Borland again (after the Inprise debacle), I can say that I am truly impressed by this company and their products."

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  1. I miss the old Borland by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Where you could purchase their entire C/C++ compiler suite + assembler + debugging tools for $149US ($169US?). The package came with several thousand pages of excellent documentation spread out over 5 or so books.

  2. Re:Nice, but - troll by turgid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Delphi, the language, is actually very nice for people wanting to get a job done. The problem with Dephi is that it's non-portable. It only runs on and generates code for 32-bit x86 machines. You can't run it on anything else. This was not a problem if you only wanted to write Windows code. Now you can write Windows and Linux x86 code. You can't make SPARC, PowerPC, MIPS, ARM or any other code with it for that matter. You're still tied to x86, but now you have the choice of Linux or Windows.

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