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Delphi Versions and Features

What is Delphi ? Delphi is an Integrated Development Environment for console, desktop, web and mobile applications. It was originally developed by Borland as rapid application development tool for windows and as the successor of Borland Pascal. But now it is maintained and improved by Embercadero Technologies. Delphi uses Object Pascal language which  is a high-level, compiled, strongly typed language that supports structured and object oriented  design  for develop applications that supports Windos 32 bit / 64 bit, linux, mac OSX, IOS and Android platform. Why the name Delphi ? As explained in the Delphi Museum article, project code named Delphi started in mid 1993. When it came time to pick a retail product name, after an article in Windows Tech Journal about a product that will change the life of programmers, the proposed (final) name was AppBuilder. Since Novell released its Visual AppBuilder, the guys at Borland needed to pick another name; it became a bit of a comedy