Borland Delphi 5 Standard

Although the last version of this product I acquired was Delphi 5 Enterprise, I started using Delphi when the second version was released during 1996. It has played such a pivotal role in my computing life and opened the door to so many new things, that it's just screaming for a review. Be warned however, I intend to review the standard edition in order to summarise the usefulness of the product as opposed to specific features (of which there are so many); but then, the other reviews cover that side of things. I also intend to write a little about the Sams "Teach Yourself" book that comes with all versions of Delphi Standard when acquired from Borland ...

I recently used Borland 5 and I found that they layout is pretty good compared to other compilers. I found the menu'ing system easy to use. Some down points to this compiler is that it doesn't compile at all when you use sockets, which i found it did compile in VC++ 6. Another down point about borland 5 is it doesn't look very modern comapred to other compilers. I think it looks more like the Visual Basic 4 compiler than a compiler made in modern times. ...

You might not know this but, Borland Delphi 5 Enterprise, Professional and Standard version are all written with the previous version of Delphi another world Delphi 4. From this it shows that Borland or Inprise has great pride in thir product and it is also a very powerful tool. If you found any of the Microsoft Visual programming tools is easy to use then you will find this is even easier to use. There are people out their in the programming world trying to clone this RAD tool. Some are very sucessful and some not as sucessful. There are also alot of open source delphi project around the net for users to use. This allows the User experience how powerful Delphi is. ...