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What is a Delphi unit?

A Delphi unit is a separate file used to store procedures and functions. If you know what a form is, a unit is exactly the same, except it has no visual interface. So you can'… (MORE)

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Why was the oracle and the delphi important?

THE ORACLE: It was important because it delivered prophecies to the heroes so that they could know the future, especially when going on quests. DELPHI: She was the slayer of a… (MORE)

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What did the Oracle of Delphi state about Socrates?

Oracle of Delphi story: Chaerophon visits the Oracle of Delphi and asks if anyone in Athens is wiser than Socrates. The Oracle answered that no one is wiser than Socrates. Soc… (MORE)

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Why is Apollo the patron god of delphi?

Apollo's Oracle was located in Delphi, so he became the patron in order to look after it.

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How far is it from Athens to delphi?

About 250km by road but for the Athenians travelling to Delphi for premonitions it would have been much further due to the mountains that they would have to have travers… (MORE)

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What is Delphi?

Delphi is the name of the commercial Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for RAD created by Borland (see www.borland.com). Borland sold out Delphi and other RAD tools in …the year 2008 to a company called Embarcadero Technologies which is now focusing on the newer versions of Delphi and other tools. RAD stands for Rapid Application Development, meaning that common develoment tasks, such as creating user interfaces, have been made much easier. For instance, without RAD you would have to specify XY coordinates for every button and screen element, RAD allows you to drag and drop buttons onto screens using your mouse similar to a Mr. Potato Head. The programming language in Delphi was Object Pascal, which is similar to the old "Structured" Pascal created by Niklaus Wirth in 1970. Though earlier their was a distinction made between Object Pascal being used as the language of Delphi and Delphi being considered as the IDE for the object pascal language but according to the definition used in the help files in Delphi 7 versions onwards we can see that infact Borland itself rebranded Delphi itself as a language. So, Delphi now becomes a language with a dedicated IDE available for it. Delphi allows you to create Standard windows programs, ISAPI applications (web applications), Web Services, NT Services, console applications, DLL's, ActiveX controls, and COM objects. The last version of the software "Delphi" was the Delphi 8 for .NET. After this it become sold as a part of the Borland Developer Studio (or simple BDS) in the versions 2005 and 2006, with the ability to compile for other platforms. At this time, the language stops to calls itself Object Pascal, but Delphi Language instead due the Microsoft .NET Framework support. There is also a limited-but-free version of the BDS 2006 called Turbo Delphi. Its price is more attractive, but it does not have all the features that your Big Brother has: the languages that it supports aren't integrated, there are separated versions for each language and they can't be installed at the same machine (there is a protection to avoid this). There is another protection that doesn't let you to install additional "features" (Components) in the IDE, but this protection can be removed at a little charge. The newest version of Delphi as of now is Delphi XE with its launch in 2010 it provides various capabilities to the language. However, there are still certain things missing with Delphi that its competing cousins are having which are - 64 bit support for application development, mobile phone application development and cross platform development to name a few. Though Embarcadero suggests that the Delphi compiler is going to undergo a complete overhaul and restructuring in the coming up releases so people might be seeing 64 bit support in Delphi in not much time. The 64 bit version is promised to be out in the first half of 2011. (MORE)

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What is the Oracle of Delphi?

Dating back to 1400 BC, the Oracle of Delphi was the most important shrine in all Greece. The shrine was in Delphi, located on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, beneath the C… (MORE)

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In Ancient Greece

What was the Oracle of Delphi?

A snake in a cave which was interrogated by a priestess who posed the questions to it asked by embassies from the Greek cities. Delphi had a good intelligence netw… (MORE)

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Is Delphi a sacred place?

Delphi was an ancient Greek town thought to be the center of the world and the universe. There were houses, walls, a gymnasium, a theater and several other non sacred st… (MORE)

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Did Socrates agree with the Oracle at Delphi?

The Oracle of Delphi was asked if anyone was wiser than Socrates, to which the Oracle responded that there was not. Socrates claims to have been bemused by this as he alwa… (MORE)