Pascal and history
Pascal origins of design stems Algol, the first high-level languages are easy to read, structured and systematically defined syntax. In the late 1960s (196x), some of the proposed evolutionary successor to Algol was developed. One of the most successful is the Pascal, invented by Prof. Niklaus Wirth. Wirth Pascal publishes original findings in 1971. Began to be implemented in 1973 with some modifications. Many features pascal derived from previous language. Statement of Case and value-result parameter derived from Algol, and record structures similar to Cobol and PL 1. Pascal adds the ability to defined a new data type is more simple than ever. Pascal also supports dynamic data structures, for example: a data structure that can grow and shrink as the program runs. The language is designed to be a learning tool for students in programming classes.
In 1975, Wirth and Jensen producing a reference book last Pascal "Pascal User Manual and Report". Wirth stopped working on Pascal in 1977 to create a new language, Modula - the successor to Pascal.
Borland Pascal
With the release of Turbo Pascal 1.0 in November 1983, Borland began his journey with the development environment and tools. To create Turbo Pascal 1.0 Borland licensed the Pascal compiler core is fast and cheap, which was written by Anders Hejlsberg. Turbo Pascal introduced an integrated development environment / Integrated Development Environment (IDE) where you can edit the code, run the compiler, see the error and jump back to the line that has an error. Compiler turbo pascal compiler has become one of the best-selling all the time, and make the language is very popular on the PC platform
In 1995 Pascal returned to introduce the application environment called Delphi - turning Pascal into a visual programming language. Strategic decision-making devices from a central database and connectivity products pascal.
The beginning of Delphi
After the release of Turbo Pascal 1, Anders joined the company as an employee and the architect for all versions of Turbo Pascal compiler and the first three versions of Delphi. As the chief architect at Borland, Hejlsberg secretly transform into Turbo Pascal object-oriented application development language, complete with an environment that truly visual and database access features outstanding
Why was given the name <Delphi>
As described in the article Borland Museum, a project with the codename Delphi emerged in mid-1993. Why is Delphi? Very simple: "If you want to talk to Oracle, go to Delphi". When it came time to choose the name of the product, after an article in 'Windows Tech Journal' about a product that will change the lives of programmers, last name proposed is AppBuilder. Since Novell released the Visual AppBuilder, Borland people need to take another name, but it became a kind of comedy: the harder people try to ignore the "Delphi" as the name of the product, the more the name of support. Once touted as "VB killer" Delphi remains a cornerstone product for Borland.
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