I was a huge Delphi fan, jumping from Paradox straight to Delphi. I had been doing flat-file database apps in Turbo Pascal before I found Paradox and so it's li

I was a huge Delphi fan, jumping from Paradox straight to Delphi. I had been doing flat-file database apps in Turbo Pascal before I found Paradox and so it's like Delphi was made for me. I used it for a very long time, but it was destroyed by the companies that owned it. A free version should have been always available, they could have taken advantage of all the Pascal hobbyists out there and given them a way to establish careers as business software developers. I'm not sure whether it's too little, but it's definitely too late. Business apps I'm familiar with that were written in Delphi are either gone or nearing their end of life. But I still haven't found anything as useful as Delphi for simple database apps. I've been doing .net for nearly 7 years now and it's just nowhere near Delphi for functionality. But desktop apps seem to be old-school, so maybe it doesn't matter anyway.