Sun, 15 Feb 2009

Happy Birthday, Delphi!

Borland Delphi 1Fourteen years since 1995, and the introduction of what's still, in my not so humble opinion, the finest RAD toolset on the market. I'm still using Delphi, and even more it's C++ Builder cousin, although I daresay it's come a long way since it's 16 bit, Windows 3.1 origins.

Sure I bitch about it at times, and moan about various new "features" added that I feel detract from the product. But I still use it daily to write more code faster, with better code quality, than I could do with any other tool out there. And that counts for alot in todays environment.

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