The Pascal community has to be thankful for the creation of the open source project of Free Pascal/Lazarus and to a degree the Russian created PascalABC. There

The Pascal community has to be thankful for the creation of the open source project of Free Pascal/Lazarus and to a degree the Russian created PascalABC. There are some others, but these are ones still here and viable. The open source Object Pascal projects is was kept the language alive. Delphi/Embarcadero went all out chasing enterprise dollars. The prices they charge burns holes in pockets for any little guys. Only in the last few years have they come to their senses with the free Community Edition and focusing again on making school/academic licenses easier to get and more accessible.