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Yea verily Robert Crew (small_poppies@bigpond.com) on Fri, 25 Sep 1998 
11:28:04 +1000 in nz.comp:<360af13e.0@139.134.5.33> didst write unto 
us...

>Patrick Dunford <patrick_dunford@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>MPG.107255042054b4889896db@newsch.es.co.nz...
>>Yea verily paulsy (you@somehost.somedomain) on 22 Sep 1998 09:10:04 GMT
>>in nz.comp:<6u7phc$j03$1@newsource.ihug.co.nz> didst write unto us...
>>
>>>It always amazed me why people bought HotDog. Do they use a more efficient
>>>programming language these days or are they still using crap VB?
>>
>>Yes they are writing it in Delphi now.
>
>I bet that pisses off the C weenies :)
>
>I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered that Pascal still survives in
>the form of Delphi.  It was a pity that Borland had to change its name
>though.

Borland did a lot of Pascal compilers called "Turbo Pascal" and they also 
did one for Windows - still called "Turbo Pascal".

The name change was appropriate because Delphi is a whole lot more than a 
compiler. Sure, you can write Delphi programs using a text editor and 
compile them with a command-line compiler if you wish - most people 
prefer to use the IDE, VCL and other core components of the Windows 
package. Delphi is a development environment based upon the Pascal 
language - like Visual Basic is a development environment.

-- 
Patrick Dunford, Christ Church, NZ
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