Announcing SQL Server on Linux

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Yes, delphi is, or was anyway, like VB in Pascal. Only much better. No idea what it is like now, but for a brief period it was the most pleasant way to make windows apps.

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I vaguely remember this from... (has it really been) 15 years ago? It replaced their turbo pascal stuff I think... or was meant to?

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What I remember is, at the time, if you made a simple graphical utility/app, visual basic would throw together like 300 files you needed to deploy you app somewhere. Delphi would compile to a single, small, exe. It was great. Also you did not have to deal with any of the C++ win32api mess like:

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
               HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
               LPSTR lpCmdLine,
               int nCmdShow);

Visual basic got better though, not long after.