Examining Embarcadero's RAD Studio 2010 Architect Edition

Mike Riley is a Dr. Dobb's contributing editor. Follow Mike on Twitter @mriley.

It wasn't until Delphi 1.0 arrived back in the mid '90s that I became a serious Windows application developer. I had dabbled with Microsoft C++ (which eventually became Visual C++) and Visual Basic, but neither thrilled me -- C++ required deeper Windows API knowledge and dozens of lines of code just to display a 'Hello, world' window on screen, and Visual Basic at that time was too simple and constrained to write any serious, low-level Windows applications. ...Read more

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