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Re:Thank You, Guido by vintagedave on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @12:28PM (#21399491)
Delphi still lets you build programs that used to run on Windows 3 with minimal changes, and definitely anything 32-bit.

It's part of the value proposition: the language and libraries are planned for forward compatibility and stability for use ten years in the future, as well as now.

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Re:Thank You, Guido by FpUser on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @01:46PM (#21400435)
Actually there were some problems (very long procedures I think would be one example). Other then that compatibility shines.
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Re:Thank You, Guido by smush on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @02:55PM (#21401186)
To save others the same DDG search I did -> Delphi is a Pascal language IDE that compiles to native Windows binaries. Apparently there is this thing called Lazarus that is a free version of it?
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Re:Thank You, Guido by FpUser on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @03:52PM (#21401815)
FreePascal is language/compiler and Lazarus is an IDE. Lazarus IDE runs on all major platforms and produces native code. Suitable for anything starting from system code and up to complex GUI apps.
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