The language is quite good, at the same level of C and C++ (minus metaprogramming), with better type safety and native code compilers available. Not to mention

The language is quite good, at the same level of C and C++ (minus metaprogramming), with better type safety and native code compilers available. Not to mention the fact that Pascal/Delphi compilers are usually so much faster than C++ compilers. I never used Delphi much, but I can clearly see its appeal.