I definitely enjoyed learning and using Pascal and Delphi. The language made so much sense! The code was structured, disciplined, easy to follow. I get the verb

I definitely enjoyed learning and using Pascal and Delphi. The language made so much sense! The code was structured, disciplined, easy to follow. I get the verbosity may not be for everyone, but it also made it much easier to read. Delphi was also out of everyone's league for application development, and not just basic "forms + DB" apps. Here is a full-scale Civilization game clone written in Delphi: http://www.c-evo.org http://www.c-evo.org (I did write a mod for that game, but I was not the core dev)