At my other work, when I was an inexperienced developer I had one task: add support for different scales (that weights cars). We had an utility that sent it to

At my other work, when I was an inexperienced developer I had one task: add support for different scales (that weights cars). We had an utility that sent it to axis camera via api so one can see weight on surveillance video. Anyways, I got the source from the vendor and it was Delphi. I thought: I heard this is similar to Pascal. I got introducet to programming with Pascal, so I'll just give Delphi a shot. Was disappointed to find out I have to pay for it given other languages are free. That was my perception: I'll invest my time to learn something that I will have to pay to use.. no thanks. Didnt bother and rewrote it in C# - the software was small. Now I get to think that maybe 10+ years ago I could have found some free IDE that compiles Delphi? The price tag from what seemed to me the official Delphi turned me off. Good that they now do CE version.