Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million students

Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by pjc50 on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @07:48AM (#22117036)

.NET is definitely the easiest possible way to do a widget UI, but it's not based on Delphi in any meaningful sense. Its closest ancestor is Java, via the short lived "J++" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B

(Android later did basically the same thing with Dalvik)

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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by elteto on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @08:49AM (#22117485)

I think the parent comment meant "philosophically" based on Delphi since Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of C#, was also the creator of Turbo Pascal and chief architect of Delphi. He left Borland for Microsoft in the mid-90s.

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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by antaviana on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @09:13AM (#22117652)

Let’s not forget that the original chief architect of Delphi and the lead architect of C# since its beginnings are the same person so I would dare to say there had ro be some influence sneaking in.

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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by aortega on Friday January 24, 2020 @03:38AM (#22136453)

Most Delphi devs were hired by Microsoft to build .net. Thats why .NET libs and the Delphi VCL are very very similar.

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