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It's status as "mainstream" is of course debatable, but Object-Pascal (aka Delphi) is #10 on TIOBE: http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_

• rufugee 11y ago
  I for one was really surprised at the list of software written in it listed in the second link. Skype? Dreamweaver? Really? I wonder how much of Skype is really still developed in it. Regardless...interesting list.
• bloke_zero 11y ago
  I'm always reminded of number 43 in the list of Things to Say When You're Losing a Technical Argument "You used to program in Pascal, didn't you?" http://www.pigdog.org/auto/mr_bads_list/shortcolumn/1914.html http://www.pigdog.org/auto/mr_bads_list/shortcolumn/1914.htm... (And yeah I did - I liked it too!)
• clouddrover 11y ago
  The TIOBE index is Delphi's best showing. Object Pascal recently got a (sensible) boost in how its TIOBE rating is calculated: http://chapmanworld.com/2016/02/09/delphi-jumps-to-10th-place-on-the-tiobe-index/ http://chapmanworld.com/2016/02/09/delphi-jumps-to-10th-plac... I haven't seen Delphi feature in the top ten in any other language index so the TIOBE ranking seems to be an outlier, which is a shame because Object Pascal is a nice language.
• pjmlp 11y ago
  Just a pedantic comment, Object Pascal was actually developed by Apple with feedback from Niklaus Wirth as their main systems programming language (in the early days) and later adopted by Borland for Turbo Pascal 5.5 on MS-DOS.