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Jump to PostDelphi is a rapid development system using Object Pascal for its language. A fancy IDE, like Visual C++ uses C++. Delphi came first.
Jump to PostIn the beginning there was Niklaus Wirth, the allfather.
He created Pascal as a language to teach structured programming to his students.Then came along Frank Borland (or so the legend goes, Frank doesn't actually exist) who commercialised the language into its most successful version ever, Turbo Pascal.
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Jump to Postjwentings story is a good one.
There is a little more sweet and sour in this. A fellow called Anders Hejlsberg worked for many years at Borland. His talents gave us Turbo Pascal and later Delphi.
Microsoft hired him away and made him the chief designer for C#. …
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I understand that this is an old post, but after reading the answers I think that there are some points left out. Although it is true that Borland has been the major driving force behind pascal with its IDEs, compilers, header translations and utility libraries yet there is …
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