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Not the place, but the compiler! The Delphi compiler is written by Borland, so you should check their site out for details
on Delphi is and does. I've been using Pascal since Turbo Pascal 2.0 and Delphi is the
result of a lot of evolution since then. Personally, I find it easier to use and just as
fast to develop with as Microsoft's Visual Basic.
Plus it's faster at run-time as well.
There are a lot of third-party library vendors out there who sell various kinds of
add-ons to Delphi: be they visual controls, report generators, charting components,
database engines, Internet components, etc, etc. I don't visit all that many web
sites all that often, but you may find this selection interesting. Just to reinforce
something that's been said already: the opinions expressed below are my own and have
nothing to do with my employers, TurboPower Software. The order isn't particularly
significant.
 | The Delphi Magazine is a British
mag that deals with a whole bunch of tips for, tricks with, issues about, programming
with, and hard to find information about Delphi. Plus, I write for it on algorithms, so it
must be good <g>. |
| Woll2Woll Software: the makers of a very
successful set of data-aware components called InfoPower. I hate their magazine ads - too
busy, no white space - but you've gotta admire the product: It does it all and more. The
source code is impenetrable, indentation all over the place, no standard coding practices,
but it works. |
| Reggatta Systems (note the double g as in the
Police album): the writers of the Titan range of products. The Titan Base Classes
are licensed by TurboPower for their FlashFiler product. These
products provide replacement BDE database engines for Btrieve and Access. |
| IntegrationWare write and sell Speed
Daemon, a profiler for Delphi. Unfortunately it works by modifying the source code and the
parser it uses is not that great, so sometimes you have to massage your own code to get it
working (just try having an $IFOPT in your code - a bug I reported a LONG time ago), but
until something better comes along (and I've seen the future <g>), it's OK. |
| Torry's Delphi Pages is the place to download freeware
and shareware for Delphi. They have an extremely wide variety, unfortunately without a
search engine, so finding anything is a bore. My EZDSL can be downloaded from this site. |
| <more to come> |
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