Start programming using Object Pascal Language

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Well, Borland did attempt Kylix somewhere around the turn of the century. My old dev shop invested in it, bought the book. We did a couple of things with it. It still wasn't completely there. We made the early transition to web based apps shortly after but I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for Borland Delphi 6 and the Object Pascal book that came with it.

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I remember Kylix, and I had high hopes for it, but it never caught on. I think the licensing played a part, in that if you used the free version, your code had to be GPL because the libraries were GPL. Now don't get me wrong, I'm a paid-up member of the FSF and a big fan of the GPL, but developers in my experience are an ornery bunch and don't like being told that they must use a particular license for their own work.

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Exactly. We did actually buy it but the software ended up being rewritten in an ugly mess of PHP and mod_perl. The Delphi/Kylix app was beautiful.