One of my programming starts was Delphi. Pascal is an easy language, but has some fundamental features: pointers, classes, procedures, custom types, manual memo

One of my programming starts was Delphi. Pascal is an easy language, but has some fundamental features: pointers, classes, procedures, custom types, manual memory management on heap and so on (it was devised as a teaching language IIRC). Delphi provided a GUI builder and a rich library which made it all fun and visual; you could whip out a first “program” or “game” in no time. Delphi is no more but there is some successor, seems to be well received on HN.