If you like Delphi, you'll like Lazarus. However, in my personal opinion, Pascal has not really kept up with the sort of creature comforts that nowadays even C

If you like Delphi, you'll like Lazarus. However, in my personal opinion, Pascal has not really kept up with the sort of creature comforts that nowadays even C++ affords the programmer. The IDE (Delphi or Lazarus) also don't provide the kind of help Eclipse gives you when using Java, even though Pascal may feel as verbose sometimes.