Oh god, I get a Proustian flashbacks to my first programming steps just by looking at that Pascal assignment operator. Delphi was wonderful. I remember showing

Oh god, I get a Proustian flashbacks to my first programming steps just by looking at that Pascal assignment operator. Delphi was wonderful. I remember showing it to an early colleague of mine who has only done C++ and he insisted that it had to be an interpreted language - because compile times were (what he thought to be) simply impossibly short.