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If Wirth would have been an US resident, working at UC or MIT, Delphi would have taken over the world instead of C and descendants.
by jhoechtl 6y ago
If Wirth would have been an US resident, working at UC or MIT, Delphi would have taken over the world instead of C and descendants.
- sgt101 6y agoI think Delphi got caught out by the coupling of the IDE and the need to support that maintenance - GNU C++ was a shot across the bows, but when Java came that business model sank. Unfortunately. Pascal and decedents have a lot going for them.
- noir_lord 6y agoThe pricing model was weird as well. For commercial development it was either cheap or hugely expensive there wasn't much in the middle - that was the norm when it was created but they failed to react to the move to a different pricing model during it's heyday.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoBaloney. Borland was running Delphi. Having Wirth 3000 miles nearer would have made very little difference.
- p_l 6y agoThe main competitor of Delphi ultimately was Visual Studio, especially VB and later VC#. And it was the mess that Borland (by then bough up, I think) made with Delphi 8 that was critical in decline of Delphi.