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Re:24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today by romwell on Thursday February 14, 2019 @11:45PM (#19168512)
No, Delphi back in the day was like VS/C# now... or, rather, the other way around, given that MS snatched Delphi's lead dev* to make C#.

*Anders Hejlsberg -- who also worked to bring us TypeScript.

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Re:24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today by int_19h on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:34AM (#19168922)
C# and Windows Forms was a spiritual successor to Delphi in many ways, IMO. E.g. VCL had TObject <- TComponent <- TControl, WinForms had Object <- Component <- Control ...
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Re:24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today by ak39 on Friday February 15, 2019 @02:46AM (#19169205)
Event(Sender: TObject) type of thing is everywhere in C# now.

Also, to add to your point: The TDataset MVC architecture was light years ahead of its time:

TVisualControl -> TDataSource -> TDatasetDescendant

Everything just fits in snugly.

Whoever thought of that architecture at Borland in the early days (1990s) deserves a legacy trophy truly!

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