[michaelbunny]

You missed out the whole hype.

For us who use stuff on a regular basis the changes seem small but peu a peu these add up.

Once an electrician still developing in spare time who know Turbo Pascal 5 from school while servicing the air conditioner saw me programming. When he heard that I would use Pascal he looked at my screen jumped from the ladder and left the office together with me after midnight.

Freepascal is indeed a very solid approach I use on Linux especially. Works great on Windows too.