Delphi was, and Lazarus is, amazingly well designed. Lazarus comes pretty close to a Swiss army GUI tool, and once you get to know it a little better, Object Pa

Delphi was, and Lazarus is, amazingly well designed. Lazarus comes pretty close to a Swiss army GUI tool, and once you get to know it a little better, Object Pascal is actually a very nice language that rivals C++ (!) in power. It's still my secret weapon at work. If only the docs were better. Still keeping around a VM with Delphi 7 from 1999 just because documentation was sooo good then.