Was he? IIRC he was more like Borland CTO or something while Chuck Jazdzewski (also poached by Microsoft, now in Google I think) was the project leader. Anders

Was he? IIRC he was more like Borland CTO or something while Chuck Jazdzewski (also poached by Microsoft, now in Google I think) was the project leader. Anders did write TurboPascal by himself though. Anyway, C# is not so close to Delphi. Both the language and the feel of the IDE are more similar to Java/Eclipse than to (good old times) Delphi. I've used C# for several projects and, even using a decent machine, the two seconds delay (for best case) was there when doing mostly everything, while Old Delphi and current Lazarus snap.