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The documentation and help pages that came with Delphi were absolutely the best documentation I ever had. Every topic came with examples that you could copy and
by silveira 10y ago
The documentation and help pages that came with Delphi were absolutely the best documentation I ever had. Every topic came with examples that you could copy and reuse. Not just snippets but fully functional blocks of code. It was brilliant.
- kozhevnikov 10y agoThe Stack Overflow Driven Development (SODD) model.
- Elrac 10y agoYou've reminded me of the reason I loved Delphi's help. I think what I found most helpful (and most unusual for the "state of the art") was that most help pages had "see also" links. This allowed me to look up something similar to what I needed and just follow the links to what I really wanted. I was able to use the Help pages as (almost?) my sole reference for the API. Something that just wasn't happening with Delphi's big competitor, VB.
- bencoder 10y agoThat was pretty much how I learnt programming
- spiralx 10y agoYes, I learnt Pascal from the Turbo Pascal docs and then moved onto Delphi from there.