Fwd: Friday finking: IDE 'macro expansions'

[Thomas Passin]

On 3/18/2023 4:46 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 17/03/2023 17:55, Thomas Passin wrote:
> 
>>> I used Delphi and Smalltalk/V which both pretty much only exist within
>>> their own IDEs and I used their features extensively.
>>
>> Back when Delphi first came out, when I first used it, I don't remember
>> any IDE; one just used a text editor.
> 
> I think you might be meaning TurboPascal, Delphi's forerunner. It just
> had a compiler and text editor. But Delphi from day 1 was an IDE
> designed to compete with Visual Basic. Everything was geared around the
> GUI builder. You could write code outside the IDE but it was orders of
> magnitude more difficult.

Maybe my memory has faded too much!  I remember porting some of my 
TurboPascal code to Delphi and wrapping it with the Delphi-Windows GUI 
instead of my own, pre-Delphi one.  The details are hazy, though ...


> The Lazarus open source project is based on Delphi's IDE.
>