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Delphi is very popular outside of the U.S: http://www.google.com/trends/?q=delphi,lisp http://www.google.com/trends/?q=delphi,lisp (I'll leave it to others to

by sehugg 15y ago

Delphi is very popular outside of the U.S: http://www.google.com/trends/?q=delphi,lisp http://www.google.com/trends/?q=delphi,lisp (I'll leave it to others to correct my Google Trends query to the proper search terms for Lisp variants -- or it could be that Lisp programmers tend not to Google their own language much :) )

rbanffy 15y ago
So is Clipper, but I don't consider it a good thing.
- bdunbar 15y ago
  Clipper the dBase III extension language? People still use that? Dang - should have held onto those manuals.
  - rbanffy 15y ago
    Just look into Stack Overflow. http://stackoverflow.com/tags/clipper/topusers http://stackoverflow.com/tags/clipper/topusers It's not as popular as VB6 ;-) http://stackoverflow.com/tags/vb6/topusers http://stackoverflow.com/tags/vb6/topusers
stcredzero 15y ago
In two decades as a professional programmer, I have only ever heard glowing remarks from Delphi developers about their environment. Certainly Eclipse and even Smalltalk can't match that.
- pjmlp 15y ago
  Not to mention the super fast compile times when compared with "#include" languages.
- poloniculmov 15y ago
  Delphi 6 and 7 were the best IDE's of their time, way better than Visual Studio 6. The language was great for the time, there was a vibrant community around it, you could find a component for everything. Borland also shipped the sources for their main library, VCL, which helped a lot when debugging. It was the best way to do Rapid Application Development. Unfortunately, the company lost it's focus, they've tried to move to .net and the next few versions of the IDE were really buggy. The language also lagged behind C#/Java, they didn't add full Unicode support until 2009, for example.
  - Joeri 15y ago
    They're no longer lagging. The most recent version has a new ui framework that is hardware accelerated and cross-platform (a pretty unique combination). You can even make iOS apps with it.
    - MaysonL 15y ago
      I wonder how good their cross-platform fu is if they don't have a mac version of the IDE.
      - pjmlp 15y ago
        As far as I know they are using FreePascal as well.
    - poloniculmov 15y ago
      I know, it's impressive. If I'll ever have to do a non-dotnet app, Delphi will be the first thing on my list.

by sehugg 15y ago

rbanffy 15y ago

So is Clipper, but I don't consider it a good thing.

bdunbar 15y ago
Clipper the dBase III extension language? People still use that? Dang - should have held onto those manuals.
- rbanffy 15y ago
  Just look into Stack Overflow. http://stackoverflow.com/tags/clipper/topusers http://stackoverflow.com/tags/clipper/topusers It's not as popular as VB6 ;-) http://stackoverflow.com/tags/vb6/topusers http://stackoverflow.com/tags/vb6/topusers

stcredzero 15y ago

In two decades as a professional programmer, I have only ever heard glowing remarks from Delphi developers about their environment. Certainly Eclipse and even Smalltalk can't match that.

pjmlp 15y ago
Not to mention the super fast compile times when compared with "#include" languages.
poloniculmov 15y ago
Delphi 6 and 7 were the best IDE's of their time, way better than Visual Studio 6. The language was great for the time, there was a vibrant community around it, you could find a component for everything. Borland also shipped the sources for their main library, VCL, which helped a lot when debugging. It was the best way to do Rapid Application Development. Unfortunately, the company lost it's focus, they've tried to move to .net and the next few versions of the IDE were really buggy. The language also lagged behind C#/Java, they didn't add full Unicode support until 2009, for example.
- Joeri 15y ago
  They're no longer lagging. The most recent version has a new ui framework that is hardware accelerated and cross-platform (a pretty unique combination). You can even make iOS apps with it.
  - MaysonL 15y ago
    I wonder how good their cross-platform fu is if they don't have a mac version of the IDE.
    - pjmlp 15y ago
      As far as I know they are using FreePascal as well.
  - poloniculmov 15y ago
    I know, it's impressive. If I'll ever have to do a non-dotnet app, Delphi will be the first thing on my list.