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Delphi Turns 10

Posted by timothy on from the oracular dept.

NavySpy writes "Today is Delphi's Tenth Birthday! The launch of Delphi 1.0 occurred on February 14th, 1995 at the Software Development '95 conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Numerous links are commemorating the event, including a recorded interview with Zach Urlocker and Gary Whizin, members of the original management team. Zack's original Product Definintion document is here. An attendee at the original event reminisces about the launch."

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  1. Re:OSS Compiler ? by xoboots · · Score: 4, Informative
    Sort of -- there is the cross-platform Free Pascal:

    http://www.freepascal.org/

    "The language syntax is semantically compatible with TP 7.0 as well as most versions of Delphi (classes, rtti, exceptions, ansistrings, widestrings, interfaces). Furthermore Free Pascal supports function overloading, operator overloading, global properties and other such features."

    There is an associated project that aims to duplicate the VCL called FCL:

    http://www.freepascal.org/fcl/fcl.html

    Finally, there is the related Delphi-like IDE to go with it:

    http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/

    It's actually quite good.