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 the code like they wrote years ago. The new language features and a better attention to the community, let Embarcadero add many useful classes in the Delphi RTL, and if you don't know them well, risk to reinvent the wheel or simply write inefficient code because you don't have the time to write the correct one. But often the correct one is just in the RTL! To minimize such risks, in this chapter we'll introduce some new or lesser known RTL classes.