Delphi was a pile of steaming crud. I have programmed in worse environments: Visual Basic would be one, but Delphi was seriously painful. All the modernity of

Delphi was a pile of steaming crud. I have programmed in worse environments: Visual Basic would be one, but Delphi was seriously painful. All the modernity of Pascal with the safety of C. Layered over... what? 5 or 6 generations of the system, all of which behave differently. Some of which still works - but you'll never know until you try it and find why that wasn't the way to go. shudder