I basically learned how to program using Delphi 2, as a 16 year old who somehow ended up writing the LOB software for a small business owned by a family friend.

I basically learned how to program using Delphi 2, as a 16 year old who somehow ended up writing the LOB software for a small business owned by a family friend. Lots of good memories of that. My career would probably be farther behind if Delphi didn't provide all the pieces to write a reasonable client-server application out of the box.