Fully agree. This is why I still argue even today that (Object) Pascal aka. Delphi is a wonderful language and tool for beginners and casual programmers who wan

Fully agree. This is why I still argue even today that (Object) Pascal aka. Delphi is a wonderful language and tool for beginners and casual programmers who want to get things done quickly and (somewhat) intuitively. Delphi unfortunately is not very en vogue at the moment due to misguided and community-destroying licensing policies by the company that owns it. But that's no fault of the language and the toolset. Both together make one the most mature, flexible and easily accessible environments for programming that I've ever encountered, from quick & simple UI-driven cross-platform apps to Web backends to hardware-oriented IoT stuff with a little Assembly sprinkled in. Of course there is FreePascal and Lazarus and all that if you really want to play with Pascal without touching Delphi. Both are neat, even though Delphi is also now available as a free community edition. What I'm saying is: Go forth and write more `:=`