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Delphi 7 was the last good release of the product. The IDE was written in Delphi. The compiler for the language was BCC, the borland C/C++ compiler. Then Borlan

Delphi 7 was the last good release of the product. The IDE was written in Delphi. The compiler for the language was BCC, the borland C/C++ compiler. Then Borland started to chase .NET and MS led them on into thinking they could catch up to C#. Any good modern Pascal product should fork from where D7 left off. IMHO.

bloblaw 14y ago
Wrong. Delphi has offloaded .NET support to a partner (RemObjects' Delphi Prism/Oxygene). Since Delphi 2007, they have doubled down on native development. Even releasing native console and GUI compilation support for OSX, and iOS in late beta. Since Delphi 7 (released in 2002), Delphi (and FPC) have added: * Generics * Anonymous methods * Enhanced RTTI * Attributes * Records with methods * for in loop * final methods * Inlining * Operator overloading * sealed methods * strict private * strict protected * Nested classes * Class helpers * Class constructors and destructors * Static class methods