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The DOS TP compiler was still at the heart of Delphi 1 supported an inline assembler and reference-based class system, code generator, etc. in less than 43k lines of assembler (it was entirely written in assembler).

(32-bit Delphi 2 switched to a C-based compiler originally written by Peter Sollich. I maintained the front end on that compiler for 6 years; PS followed AH to MS.)

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Cool. I love Delphi to this day. Nothing beats that for Windows native apps IMHO.

Any interesting stories to share? I read somewhere that now the compile is a million lines of undocumented code.

I got a lot of use out of that in my early career. Thank you.

To be clear, I was only involved in 2006-12 time period. I got a lot of use out of TP 6 and Delphi 2 when I was learning, which is a significant part of the reason I ended up at Borland.

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