According to Ken Linder:

I just thought we ought to get some definitions out of the way regarding Delphi.

1. Delphi Development tool IDE) and compiler/linker/interactive debugger.

Strictly NOT platform independant. Only implemented OS (if you could call it that :^) is the group of Windows OSs. (Although I did read that there is an IBM AS400 version of Delphi (hmmm... interesting!))

Okay with me, but just to keep the confusion up, I must correct you below:

2. Object Pascal A superset of Borland Pascal. The language that is compiled by the

Delphi compiler. Through the utilization of the VCL, the Delphi IDE is partialy built on Delphi.

There is yet another Object Pascal which is an extension of ISO-10206 Extended Pascal. When saying "Object Pascal", I usually refer to this one, while I call the other thing "Delphi" - thus contradicting your definition #1. But I could live with speaking about the "Delphi language" here, reserving "Delphi" for the development environment.

This version of pascal is not standard but seems to be an extension of ISO 7185.

No, it does not include ISO-7185. It has some common things with ISO-7185, that's all. OTOH, Borland's versions of Pascal are extensions of UCSD-Pascal (with small exceptions).

Peter

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