Borland® Delphi™ 6 Developer's Guide

Delphi: What and Why

We're often asked questions such as “What makes Delphi so good?” and “Why should I choose Delphi over Tool X?” Over the years, we've developed two answers to these types of questions: a long answer and a short answer. The short answer is productivity. Using Delphi is simply the most productive way we've found to build applications for Windows. Of course, there are those (bosses and perspective clients) for whom the short answer will not suffice, so then we must break out the long answer. The long answer describes the combined qualities that make Delphi so productive. We boil down the productivity of software development tools into a pentagon of five important attributes:

• The quality of the visual development environment