This brings back memories. Back in the late eighties I used various programming languages for fun (TI59, 6502 assembler, BBC Basic), but when I switched to Pasc

This brings back memories. Back in the late eighties I used various programming languages for fun (TI59, 6502 assembler, BBC Basic), but when I switched to Pascal, a lot of things changed for me. At that time the schools used the predecessor of Turbo Pascal, called PolyPascal - but some time later they switched to Turbo Pascal. I have used Delphi almost from the beginning and have used various versions through time. I don't always remember the system for good tings. The article mentions Oracle, and I do remember we had a hard time getting Delphi to connect properly to Oracle databases in the late nineties. This was mostly done through BDE. The official definition of that abbreviation is Borlands Database Engine, but a lot of people called it Borlands Database Error. A few years ago I got back to Delphi and what a please it is to use. The latest version of Delphi allows you to produce native code to several different platforms, and it's certainly still Rapid Application Development. But unfortunately it's not available to everybody due to the prices.