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Answers.
Why the name "Delphi?"
by Danny Thorpe
"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. Members of the then
Pascal development team were hanging around R&D Manager Gary Whizin's office
brainstorming clever codenames to use for the new product. It was not a
large office, but it was not a large team either - about 10 people between
R&D, QA, Pubs, and Marketing. It would have been odd not to see Anders
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