Visual Basic pre-dates Delphi. Remember VB6 was the 6th iteration of Visual Basic and VB hadn't really changed that much since at least Visual Basic 3 (which wa

Visual Basic pre-dates Delphi. Remember VB6 was the 6th iteration of Visual Basic and VB hadn't really changed that much since at least Visual Basic 3 (which was the earliest version I used). I always thought Visual Basic got unfairly mocked because it was a fantastic language and framework for non-computationally expensive workloads. Delphi, on the other hand, I struggled to enjoy. I really wanted to love Delphi because Pascal was one of my favourite languages but Delphi just didn't gel with me and it's hard to explain why. However Hejlsburg was also the author of Turbo Pascal and that achievement alone deserves to put him in the history books in my opinion. It's also worth noting that your Apple/Jobs comment should probably acknowledge Steve Wozniak instead.