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Delphi - Programming language

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Delphi is an open source programming language created in 1995.

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Embarcadero Delphi is an integrated development environment (IDE) for desktop, mobile, web, and console applications. It's also an event driven language. Delphi's compilers use their own Object Pascal dialect of Pascal and generate native code for several platforms: Windows (x86 and x64), OS X (32-bit only), iOS (32 and 64-bit), Android and Linux (64-bit Intel). Read more on Wikipedia...


Example from hello-world:
program HelloWorld; {$APPTYPE CONSOLE} begin WriteLn('Hello World'); end.
// Hello World in Delphi Program Hello_World; {$APPTYPE CONSOLE} Begin WriteLn('Hello World'); End.
Example from Wikipedia:
procedure TForm1.ShowSomethingOnCreate; begin Label1.Text := 'Hello World!'; end;

Language features

Feature Supported Token Example
Strings ✓ '
'Hello world'
Case Insensitive Identifiers ✓
MultiLine Comments ✓ { }
{ A comment
}
Print() Debugging ✓ WriteLn
Line Comments ✓ //
// A comment
Comments ✓
Semantic Indentation X

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