Am 10.04.2012 13:05, schrieb Kostas Michalopoulos: > On 4/4/2012 6:33 πμ, waldo kitty wrote: >> agreed... plus "we" do not know how many years the v1.0 of delphi was in >> development... we might guess based on TP/BP stuffs but "we" still do >> not know for sure... it can easily be for more years than FP/Laz has >> been in development ;) > > Not really, this quote from a "history" article from Borland's Museum: > > --- > "Delphi" started out as a beta codename for a closely guarded skunkworks > project at Borland: a next-generation visual development environment for > Windows based on Borland's Object Pascal programming language. The > codename hatched in mid 1993, after the development team had been > through about 6 months of deep research, proof-of-concept exercises, and > market analysis. > --- > > So Delphi was in development since late 1992. Since the first release > was in 1995, we can infer that Delphi was at most three years in > development before the first 1.0 release. Lazarus started in 1999 (and > according to the history page in the wiki, it is based on an older 1998 > project which itself is based on an even older project, although i'm not > sure what exactly "based" here means) so it is over a decade in > development and still no 1.0. > > So if you think about it, if Borland worked on Delphi more than Lazarus, > then they'd need to work on it before even Windows 1.0 was released :-P.
If you divide the development time span by the number of supported widget sets, OSes, CPU architecture etc. the period from the start of the project to 1.0 is pretty amazing :) -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
