tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5257959291543644569.post4569285572840677889..comments2023-10-28T20:28:42.560+05:30Comments on Tech Fete: Delphi Development EnvironmentPilot-Poojahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16144657294198886622noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5257959291543644569.post-23795041404436295252010-01-17T20:50:41.901+05:302010-01-17T20:50:41.901+05:30I also used delphi a couple of times maybe around ...I also used delphi a couple of times maybe around 7-8 years back. Mostly for writing some simple applications just for fun of it. I remember I made a multiple choice questionarier app once. I used to like it very much, especially the ease with which you can make GUIs. It was called RAD (rapid app development) or something. Never really learnt Delphi very thoroughly and now I probably have forgotten most of the syntax. Could not answer any of the questions. Except one, which is about more about history/geography :-). Delphi (oracle of delphi) was in greece. It was the centre of old Greek religion . Especially famous were the preistesses who would go in trance and answer questions about future (and past) submitted by people. Some kind of Greek shamans. Greeks always fascinate me...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14384608481783401972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5257959291543644569.post-16063488121925283662010-01-16T21:35:47.588+05:302010-01-16T21:35:47.588+05:30When one component owns another, the memory for th...<b><i>When one component owns another, the memory for the owned component is freed, when its owner's memory is freed.</i></b><br /><br />It may not always be the case. An object may not be reclaimed when its parent is reclaimed, if the same object is being referenced from another component. It may be mostly true for UI components, but again, it does not always hold good. This is where object graphs come into picture. Detection of orphans get tricky with orphan-islands. Garbage collection is not very robust in Delphi, as compared to other prevalent runtime's when it comes to detection of orphan islands. The following articles describes an easier technique on the same <a href="http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/28217" rel="nofollow">http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/28217</a>. As given in the article, when using try..finally it is up to the user to handle all of it, <i>with care</i>.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14480745101095955332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5257959291543644569.post-52718257424557624002010-01-16T21:28:05.646+05:302010-01-16T21:28:05.646+05:30Hey, isn't Delphi an obsolete language? I have...Hey, isn't Delphi an obsolete language? I haven't seen any applications written in Delphi coming in for a while. Is it used in the telecom domain? Even Pascal has taken a beating with Python, Perl, Erlang, and more recently Lua and Go! I might be wrong here for I do not have much knowledge about these technologies. But for sure, whatever memoirs I have of the platform, its great!<br /><br />Anyways, nice post which reminds me of my early struggle choosing a platform to learn when minds were over burdened with choice.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14480745101095955332noreply@blogger.com