Introduction

Don't reinvent the wheel! Many programmers ignore what the big Delphi RTL can offer them. Some old-time Delphi lovers continue to write code in the same way they wrote it years ago. New language features and better attention to the community let Embarcadero add many useful classes in the Delphi RTL, and if you don't know them well, you risk reinventing the wheel or simply writing inefficient code because you don't have the time to write it correctly. But often, the correct way to write code is just in the RTL! To minimize such risks, in this chapter we'll introduce some new or lesser known RTL classes.