Pascal not considered harmful - was Re: Rich kids are into COBOL

Borland's extensions to Pascal that removed any limitation in I/O. I think people confuse Turbo Pascal with "standard" Pascal. Turbo brought a LOT to the table that you simply coudln't do with a standardized Pascal compiler. Borland never quit tweaking the language - Object Pascal hit with the 5.5 release of Turbo Pascal and that was improved upon even further with the 6.0 and 7.0 releases. When Delphi hit the market in 1995, it really blew people away. Had Borland's management not run the company into the ground, Delphi would be a lot more popular than it is today. Fortunately they used their last functioning brain cell to spin their developer tools off to CodeGear in 2007. Embarcadero purchased them a while after that and have continued to improve upon the product - both Delphi and C++ Builder. They did. TP was successful because it was fast, cheap and flexible.