I have not programmed in Delphi for several years and I miss it. My last upgrade was Delphi, started with Turbo Pascal and have 1,2,3,4 and 5. The
Delphi will be for hobby programming only.

The questions are:

Should I just load Delphi 5 and go with it ?

Get the new Delphi XE, cost 899.00 plus 270 for maint. This seems really
high to me, I get MSDN Professional and Delphi is higher ?

Are programmers still using Delphi 5.

Thanks
George

George,

I still have a few Delphi 5 programs out with users, and these still work OK even with Windows-7. (they are there because some components I use were removed from later Delphi versions.) For purely hobby use, I would certainly use Delphi 5 as you already have it. You may find problems with some 3rd-party components, which are no longer updated for a Delphi as old as Delphi 5, and you won't be using the Unicode capabilities which are built into all versions from Delphi 2009 onwards.

From Delphi 5, I moved to Delphi 2007, and then to Delphi 2009. Each
upgrade involved work on my part to get existing programs to compile. I also find the upgrade price for Delphi 2011 (XE?) excessive, for the gains which it might bring me. I accept that others may have a different view based on their different needs. I'm waiting for the 64-bit version, and anticipate quite a lot of work to bring my software to a working state when pointers are no longer 32-bit unsigned integers!

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
David
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