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Delphi is the product name of the IDE. The programming language that Delphi uses is Object Pascal. Check the wikipedia or Embarcadero's website to confirm. O
by Tozen 5y ago
Delphi is the product name of the IDE. The programming language that Delphi uses is Object Pascal. Check the wikipedia or Embarcadero's website to confirm.
Object Pascal is an extension of Pascal, that adds OOP. It is much tighter than the relationship of C to C++. You can write Object Pascal procedurally, where it closely resembles ISO 1983 or 1990 Pascal.
By the way, there was a 1993 technical committee to add OOP to Pascal, which a lot comes from the various Object Pascal dialects. Be that as it may, the Borland/Embarcadero Object Pascal became the de facto standard. The other dialects of Object Pascal follows them.
To say nobody uses Pascal/Object Pascal is disingenuous. Clearly people use and pay for Delphi (Embarcadero), Oxygene (Rem Objects), and Smart Pascal. Free Pascal/Lazarus and PascalABC are open-source projects with over 20 year histories, so they are not going anywhere, and are very much used.