If you're reading the magazines of that time period, you'll find a lot of Modula-2 exposure as some regarded it as the next step in the language's evolution (an

If you're reading the magazines of that time period, you'll find a lot of Modula-2 exposure as some regarded it as the next step in the language's evolution (and a more standardized one than Pascal). On the other hand, Ada was mentioned, too. So if Borland would've supported M-2 more, maybe that would've meant that they had supported another standardized language later on, instead of further messing with Pascal. Picture the Delphi IDE with Ada95. (As much as I like both Modula-3 and Oberon, I picked the more likely candidate for this alternate reality. The one where they're all beaten by Visual SAIL is further down the weirdness ladder.)