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Delphi is a language for rapid development of native Windows applications. The name also refers to the Delphi IDE, which is used to help edit and debug Delphi projects more efficiently. It is sold by Embarcadero, as a standalone product or included in RAD Studio, which includes other languages as well.▼
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▲'''Delphi''' is a language for rapid development of
Delphi is used for the RAD Studio personality using Object Pascal as the programming language of choice. Object Pascal is an enhancement of Niklaus Wirth's language Pascal.▼
▲Delphi is
Delphi originated in 1995 at Borland, evolving from Turbo Pascal. It quickly became the language of choice for Windows programming. It is currently owned by Embarcadero.▼
▲Delphi originated in 1995 at Borland, evolving from Turbo Pascal. It's
Among Delphi's strengths are its easy learning curve, consistent language architecture, a blazingly fast compiler, great execution speed, modern language constructs, its extensive Visual Component Library (VCL), and the associated visual form designer.
The Delphi XE2 version added support for 64-bit applications. It also added a cross platform compiler and component library allowing it to create cross platform applications for Mac OS X and iOS.
==Variants==
* Embarcadero, and Borland before it, experimented with using the "Delphi" name to brand tools based on other languages. Examples include Delphi for [[:Category:PHP|PHP]] which was renamed RAD PHP, and Delphi Prism, which was renamed Embarcadero Prism. The latter makes use of the [[wp:Oxygene (programming language)|Oxygene]] dialect of Pascal provided by RemObjects Software, to build cross platform .NET and Mono applications.
* There is also Delphi/400 which is actually the main Embarcadero Delphi product repackaged with AS/400 and sold by SystemObjects.
* [[DWScript]] is a Delphi-hosted script engine that implements most of the Delphi language, along with FreePascal/Oxygene extensions.
==See Also==
* [[wp:Embarcadero Delphi|Delphi on Wikipedia]]
* [http://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi Delphi page at Embarcadero.com]
* [[wp:Oxygene (programming language)|Oxygene on Wikipedia]]
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