Today is the St. Valentine's Day and the 10th anniversary of Delphi (so romantic!). Nine versions of Delphi has been released in the past 10 years and we can find out there is a great improvement from one to one. Here is some information I searched about each Delphi version :)

Before 1995 - Borland (Inprise) released Turbo Pascal compiler. It became a popluar standard for programming on the PC very soon. I knew nothing about programming, was a computer-idiot!

1995 Delphi 1 - Borland tuned Turbo Pascal into a windows programming development tool with OO, rapid application development environment and client/server solution. Many developers had tried and used D1 (though with many defects) and one of my friends still keeps this version on his bookshelf.

1996 Delphi 2 - It had been fully support and integration with Windows 95.

1997 Delphi 3 - It was much more stable than the previous ones. I know there are still software houses in HK using D3 for their development(Wow!). Code insight technology was introduced in this version.

1998 Delphi 4 - Borland enhanced Delphi with providing CORBA, Java interoperability, MS BackOffice support...

1999 Delphi 5 - D5 was a very good developement tool for internet and database application. On some day, Borland(HK) sent a free edition to my university and so my lecturer Tony decided to teach us Object-oriented programming with D5. I believed we were the only one using Delphi for programming lectures in Hong Kong. I began to write delphi programming from HelloWorld.exe in that year.

2000 Delphi 6 - It was the first RAD environment for Windows that fully supports new and emerging Web Services. Besides, D6 was also support for cross-platform development that allowed same code to be compiled with Delphi (under Windows) and Kylix (under Linux).

2001 Delphi 7 - D7 studio provided the migration path to Microsoft .NET that we have been waiting for. It was a preview for .net application.

( 2002 ) - No new version had been released but it was a special year for myself. I had finished my study and started working as Delphi programmer.

2003 Delphi 8 - It enabled us to develop pure .Net applications, including Windows Forms, Asp.net WebForms and Web Services. And it also eased the process of migrating Windows application to .Net applications with the new VCL for .Net components library.

2004 Delphi2005 - The new IDE supported multiple personalities: Win32, Delphi for .NET and C#.