Does someone here program with delphi? I think there should also be a toppic "Delphi".
You can also do lots of stuff with delphi,
asm programming, OpenGL, DX, ...
It's a nice programm langue

I always thought that Delphi wasn't a language, but an API. I always thought it was the windows API for pascal (it rides on top of pascal...that much I know ) [addsig]

Delphi is just the something like C++ is for C, only for Pascal, or not?
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It's more like Visual Basic for QBasic . Actually, Delphi is only a Pascal compiler. But it's way cool if you can acquire it somehow, it's somewhere between C's power and BASIC's ease. But Pascal is a bit unflexible. In BASIC/C, you can declare new variables almost whenever you want. In pascal, there's a "var" section at the beginning of the code, no other variables accepted. And let me add, Delphi 6 has the best IDE + RAD around (considering it's the first RAD, that's normal ).

oh, I'm quite happy with my Anjuta IDE
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1) Delphi's compiler is a c++ compiler
2) In Delphi you (indeed) have to use the "var" statement. Delphi is a object based program langue ... so you easly could work with objects
3) You can create (like with C, c++, vc) nice games (3d engines). The base langue may be pascal, this does not means it is a lower program langue (with Delphi, you can do many stuff that you can't with visual basic)
4) The reason why many people never heard of Delphi, or think it is a "just a pascal langue", is because they never programmed with it in the hard way!

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(Not that I mean that other program langues are not fun ro something to work with, but what I try to explain here is that Delphi is actually a powerful langue)

how about binary speed? in games or 3d engines you mentioned above you need maximum speed. Are Delphi/TP apps faster than C/C++ apps when compiled?
ok, fastest would be asm, but ... erm... there is a certain lack of easines to code
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Pascal and C are pretty similar, even though Pascal isn't really made for system programming and playing with system resources (even though you can do that with inline assembler in TP), but othwerwise I don't think there's that much of a speed/size difference.

how about "portability" then? can you use/compile TP/Delphi code on other sys than winows/dos ? just a Q ...
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http://www.freepascal.org/

Delphi uses the Object Pascal language, created by Borland as an extention to the pretty lame standard Pascal.

we have Delphi editors at our school but i never used them! [addsig]

Bad for you, lamer...

lmao
please robert, don't be so offensive! but I'll forgive you this time!
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Kylix (Linux) = Delphi (Windows)

kylix uses winelib.. I read in some interview tho that they'll change that..
Cause, winlib == display problems.

winelib has some display probs? I never recorgnized those :/
any article or something about it?
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the delphi compiler for windows is called "delphi"?

uhm, imho it doesn't need an article, just load an app that was ported with winelib... you'll see artifacts, and the window leaving grey trails on the screen...

fsvara: I'll seek for some progs like that
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Is it really Right to say that "foo language is faster than bar language, but assembly has to be the fastest!" ? I don't know; I think that if it's a good implementation of Object Pascal-- why can't it be be faster than some implementation of C. And if whoever is writing assembly is writing really crufty code-- Why can't a good implementation of C or Pascal can be faster than it.

Just thought I'd make some discussion...

- Drew Kuehn
Where have my trousers gone?

Delphi can do inline ASM

mookeen - sure, but you really can't expect a language that you program by draggin puzzle pieces, like the lego mindstorm robots thing, to be just as fast as perfectly optimized ASM code... it's just completely different things, in how they interact with the machine...