Reading through the docs, it was nice seeing that Pascal wasn't sitting still through all the these years. Generics, extension methods (class helpers) and value

Reading through the docs, it was nice seeing that Pascal wasn't sitting still through all the these years. Generics, extension methods (class helpers) and value types - though the last features actually existed way before class, and I've extensively used it back in the day, old style objects are unsafe and were abandoned for a while without being fixed. Too bad that memory management is still tedious and categorically unsafe with all sorts of crazy hacks like a TComponent hierarchy and reference counting that exists only for interface. It was a reasonable trade-off for me back in the days where the best thing C++ had was auto_ptr and a bunch of incompatible vendor specific classes. Nowadays, it's a world I wouldn't want to come back to (or I would happily programming C).