[lbruder]

The one thing Delphi really did wrong was to make GUI programming too easy. It was just too simple, too tempting, to just put all your code into your MainForm.pas, making it grow to over 10'000 LOC. If (and only if) the programmers took care to avoid code duplication and cared about writing good, solid code, Delphi rocked. Just like Lazarus (http://www.lazarus-ide.org/) does today. One of my weapons of choice nowadays when it comes to GUI development.

[giancarlostoro]

The only thing I wish it had is more documentation for those of us who never did any Pascal. I love Lazarus too, but it's quite a lot to take in when you're used to other languages. I basically have to "Guess" how to write code, which can become a lot more work with Delphi / FreePascal.

[lbruder]

Try to get your hands on an old copy of Delphi 1 or 2. Thousands of pages of documentation in PDF format. Docs used to be so much better back then, it's sad. I still have a copy of Delphi 7 lying around just because the help system was/is so good.

[giancarlostoro]

Sadly I was more concerned about FreePascal than Delphi as well. But yeah, it's sad that documentation is dead these days.

[derrickdirge]

It's possible that being thrown at an ancient, loosely-managed Delphi project has given me a poor first impression of it.

[donatj]

Hah, the same thing could really be said of VB.Net