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John Kaster of Borland has announced that Delphi 9's codename is Diamondback.
Here's the link. Looks like Delphi 9 has exciting features, from the looks of the article.
From the looks of the article, these features include:
In addition, it looks like Delphi 9 is shipping with 2 IDEs, one for Win32, and one for .NET.
Looks like Delphi 9 is going to be very very exciting!!!
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