{"id":134,"date":"2008-08-08T20:37:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T08:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2009-08-07T14:15:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T02:15:53","slug":"a-new-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/134\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span>

My first poll looked ahead to the next version of Delphi, asking what we were looking forward to.\u00a0 It came as no real surprise to find Generics and Unicode leading the pack.<\/p>\n

So I thought I’d turn the perspective around to look in the opposite direction and find out where our pollsters (pollees?) are coming from, and what version of Delphi got them started.\u00a0 To keep the list down to a just barely manageable number I’ve “rolled up” some of the versions – so apologies if your specific version got mashed up with a neighbour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span> My first poll looked ahead to the next version of Delphi, asking what we were looking forward to.\u00a0 It came as no real surprise to find Generics and Unicode leading the pack. So I thought I’d turn the perspective around to look in the opposite direction and find out where our pollsters (pollees?) are coming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1TKYv-2a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":194,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/194\/","url_meta":{"origin":134,"position":0},"title":"Another Week, Another Poll","date":"17 Aug 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Last weeks poll asked which was your first Delphi version.\u00a0 It may or may not come as a surprise that the results essentially provided a list of Delphi versions largely sorted by age. 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