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🗓️ Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Delphi version 1.0’s Launch

「 Today we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the launch of Delphi version 1.0 on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 1995, at the Software Development West Conference in San Francisco California. More that 12 years of continuous IDE, language, tools and library development led up to the launch of Delphi version 1.0 」

blog.davidi.com/2025/02/14/cel

blog.davidi.comCelebrating the 30th Anniversary of Delphi version 1.0’s Launch – David I's Everything About Software Development (including the kitchen sink)
Víctor R. Ruiz

@jbz Thanks for sharing that! I was already in love with Turbo Pascal, but my first paid job was one to re-program a DOS billing application in Delphi (3). What a wonderful programming environment! My love for never died but, for many reasons, it never got traction among open source communities. By the way, a few months before I started, I traveled to Madrid to do a training course and, while there, I bought Infomagic’s 1996 CD pack with Slackware, Red Hat and Debian.