I taught myself C before doing Pascal at school, so it always felt like a toy educational language to me. Also I never managed to get a free copy of Delphi whe

I taught myself C before doing Pascal at school, so it always felt like a toy educational language to me. Also I never managed to get a free copy of Delphi when it was all the rage, so I later moved to VB6, then C++ on Visual Studio and then C#, all of which were easily found in the enthusiast magazines a newbie like me would buy in the 90s. It seems Borland and later Embarcadero had massive distribution and licensing problems, and they are the cause of their demise.