Anders Hejlsberg is Danish, not Swedish - and this is about as factually correct as Petzold ever gets in the part about Pascal. The article is from September 19

Anders Hejlsberg is Danish, not Swedish - and this is about as factually correct as Petzold ever gets in the part about Pascal. The article is from September 1996. Delphi 2 was out by then, and taking 32 bit Windows development by storm. Delphi programmers generally had nothing but scorn for Visual Basic. Not because it was Microsoft, but because it really was a shitty tool, and programs produced with it tended to be slow, bloated, hard to maintain, and often poorly coded.