Delphi has been the development environment of choice for Advantage developers for some time. While we anticipate that other languages, such as C#, will be the choice of a growing number of Advantage developers due to the availability of the Advantage .NET Data Provider, Delphi continues to be an excellent tool for working with Advantage.

Beginner level coders often have the same question; what’s the best way to get started in programming? It’s such a diverse world and there are so many new and exciting (or old and vital) languages that figuring out where to begin can be very bewildering. Guess what? We have the solution. The simple, clean, structured Pascal language is the best way to help you find your programming feet. Its whole reason for existing is to teach good programming practices and standards. What are you waiting for? Get learning!

It’s a well known fact that bugs found early in the program development are cheaper to fix. It costs significantly more to fix a bug at the end of the project than it does to fix the same bug earlier. And if we have the tool that can help us reduce a number of bugs on early development stages, it is a good reason to use it.