Re: Pascal ? Really ?
TurboPascal first, and later Delphi, added to Pascal what was needed to turn it into a professional and productive language and toolchain.
BTW, Delphi was 20 last Saturday. But, unluckily, BorInCodeDero (Borland/Inprise/CodeGear/Embarcadero) management worked (and still works) actively against its own product crippling it the more they could, while ensuring it never got the features it really needed to keep it actual as the development landscape evolve and changed from Windows 3.1 to Windows 8.1 and Windows 2012R2. Lack of focus and of real strategy, bad positioning, and fashion chasing (Linux first, then .NET, then iOS and Android), didn't help either.
Now most development has been "offshored" to Spain and Romania, and the resulsts are not good.
But there are a some good Windows applications written in it, just most user won't be able to tell the difference from a C/C++ one.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
