What is Delphi

[Qwerty2]

Just as the title says what is Delphi, is it a language, is it as powerful as c++, can I do with c++ what I can do with it? Thanks in advance!

[helios]

It's Pascal+OO.

[Duthomhas]

Yes, it is Borland's (now CodeGear/Embarcadero's) version of Object Pascal -- a non-standard version of Pascal. I like it much more than the wonky ISO 10206 (for reasons I won't enumerate here). That isn't to say it is perfect -- Borland has made some significant mistakes with the language -- especially recently under CodeGear -- but I still like it.

It isn't the same as C++ though... the object system is different and it doesn't have generics.

I prefer it to C and C++... (I still like C and C++ a lot.)
When programming Win32 applications I use it almost exclusively.

Here's Hello World in Pascal:

program hello;
{$apptype console}

begin
  writeln( 'Hello world!' )
end.

I actually would like to see a better standard... so eventually I will finish writing my own version of Pascal. :-)