I have not used Embarcadero's Delphi, just their database client. I have used Free Pascal, though. Interesting, but no demand for it :-( The whole 90s C/C++

I have not used Embarcadero's Delphi, just their database client. I have used Free Pascal, though. Interesting, but no demand for it :-( The whole 90s C/C++ thing was such a debacle. Running C for app work in the internet era reminded me of "Hunt for Red October" - "Next, he'll be removing the safeties from his torpedos" - "you arrogant ass, now you have killed us!". Widespread internet adoption was the "extinction level event" for C/C++ apps. (along with faster processors and garbage collection) Anyway, if more companies had used an Algol descended language that actually did bounds checking, and made less use of points constantly, the crisis that forced Java adoption could have been avoided.