Re: The Delphi Brand

In article <45e5aa3e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dennis Landi says...

Well when Borland renamed their Object Pascal, "Delphi", I frankly ignored
them.

That would be Delphi 1.0 according to JK. When they started using that
name _publicly_ would have been Delphi 7 (poss 6?)

You've been ignoring Borland since the mid-1990's? What are you doing
here?

;) lol


For me this was far easier to get across to
clients/customers than trying to explain the multi-language product
universally known as Delphi

The multi-language product has NEVER been known as Delphi - the multi-
language product was ALWAYS called Borland Developer Studio.


(I also ignored "BDS", never refered to the product as that)

Erm, isn't that your point? That it's not what you or I call it, but
what Borland call it?


"Delphi" isn't a language, its a way of architecting an IDE and software
development methodology at the code level.

"At the code level" = "language". No?


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Jolyon Smith
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