I remember Borland vs Ms Delphi vs VB TASM vs MASM Borland C++ OWL vs Microsfot C++/MFC Philippe Khan vs Gates Delphi was the raddest RAD tool

I remember Borland vs Ms Delphi vs VB TASM vs MASM Borland C++ OWL vs Microsfot C++/MFC Philippe Khan vs Gates Delphi was the raddest RAD tool. The free VCL components for it were often better than commercial VB ActiveX components. Delphi executables were faster. Delphi could statically link everything. I eventually had to move to VB when my Delphi job dried up. VB felt like a downgrade. I remember constantly referring to Dan Appleman's book so I could use Win32 APIs to work around the limitations of VB. I'm not knocking VB as it's one of my favorite tools too, but Delphi was the cream of the crop.