Section 02 of 05
Delphi
The visual form designer, the native compiler and the component model that made Delphi 1 in 1995 a different kind of tool — and Delphi 7 in 2002 the version people still name.
A reference on Object Pascal, the Delphi line and the libraries built on it.
Section 02 of 05
The visual form designer, the native compiler and the component model that made Delphi 1 in 1995 a different kind of tool — and Delphi 7 in 2002 the version people still name.
Other sections: Pascal · After Borland · People · Versions
Delphi 1, February 1995February 1995: a visual form designer over a native compiler, on 16-bit Windows.Delphi
The VCL Made the Component the Unit of WorkEvery VCL control inherits several generations of behaviour before a developer writes a line of their own.Delphi
A Form Saved as a Text File You Could ReadA form's entire component tree, written out as name-value pairs a person could read and a diff tool could merge.Delphi
KOL and MCK, and the People Who Would Not Ship a MegabyteThe same visible work in an order of magnitude less binary — the measurement Kladov's libraries were built around.Delphi
The Version Released in 2002 That People Still NameReleased in 2002 and still named ahead of its successors years after they shipped.Delphi
The String Change That Split the Installed BaseChanging what a string meant was a one-line change to the specification and a multi-month migration for everyone else.Delphi
JEDI, and a Library Nobody Was Paid to WriteThe JVCL and JCL were assembled by volunteers alongside a paid component market selling into the same IDE.Delphi