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Delphi is a language for rapid development of native Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android applications through use of Object Pascal. The name refers to the Delphi language as well as its IDE, which is used to help edit and debug Delphi projects.

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Memory concerns while plotting escape from DLL Hell in Delphi [closed]

(and namespaces didn't exist in Delphi so it never crossed our mind to make dll1.main.pas, dll2.main.pas or something even more unique) What we want to do is consolidate all these DLLs into one executable … and what is the biggest project one can reasonably expect to build with Delphi? …
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Delphi doesn't have Lambda Expressions and I'm a Delphi programmer, what am I missing out on?

I'm nearly clueless as to what a lambda expression is, but I have a hard time believing that I couldn't finagle something to the same effect in Delphi (albeit with 900% more code). … What is the big advantage of lambda expressions, what am I missing out on and is there anything with the post Delphi 2009 RTL improvements that comes close to emulating the powers of C# in this regard? …
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Design Patterns in Delphi [closed]

Delphi has a few problems implementing some design patterns because some features it lacks, like multiple inheritance and no pure abstract classes. … Are there any good resources or "Adaptation-Patterns" to convert some or all of the Design Patterns in the GoF book, to Delphi applications? …
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What's with Delphi's support cycle?

For my part, I hope we start using Delphi 2009 before they pull the plug on rebates for it. …
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How is Delphi XE2 going to work across platforms? [closed]

So I've been reading a little about Delphi XE2 and I probably will go to the world tour thing in Chicago coming up later this month and ask this question if no one can answer it here. … What I wonder is how is my Delphi code going to be executed on a Mac? Is something else going to have to run (i.e. virtual machine) in order for the program to run? …
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Delphi Build Server - Do I need to check in .dres files?

We're using final builder to build a Delphi project and the person managing the build server noticed that projects with no .dres files were not building because they're not in SVN and because they're not … not being built by the build server and we're not really creating the build in one step since we're using pre-compiled code (I might as well just check in my DCU's, tear off my beard and return my Delphi
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Is integer used too much as a data type?

I haven't seen a lot of other extensive codebases (other than the Delphi VCL) and examples on the internet usually use integer. … recordID : Cardinal; thingID : Cardinal; otherThingID : Cardinal; end; Functionally, these records almost always work the same (and hopefully will continue to work the same even in 64-bit Delphi
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Converting mysql and SQLServer tables quickly in an update utility

We use Delphi XE2 Enterprise, if anyone has any 3rd party DB tools or knows any shortcuts. … We've never used datasnap, as we didn't have the "good version" of Delphi until we updated to XE2, so I'm clueless as to whether it's got this functionality. …
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Codeigniter + JQuery + Processing.js to replace a Delphi App

So, I've got a mandate to make our aged trillion lined Delphi app web based and it needs to make heavy use of the <canvas> element (HTML5 compatibility doesn't seem to be a big issue since we can just … The Delphi app in question is almost completely database driven and will still pretty much continue to be developed as the main product. …
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Multi-platform design with Delphi, Java, MySQL and CouchDB [closed]

Browser based and native developed GUI using Delphi to connect to Datasnap server (Delphi, obviously) via Rest which stores documents in A CouchDB Server But gets the structure for those documents … I just wanted to go with Delphi since we've got it and know it. …
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