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I started using Delphi back in the early 90s because I needed to send a "catalogue on a floppy" to customers of my parents.

At the time I'd used VB but the runtime was the size of a floppy on its own, and the catalogue data pushed it over the size. I remember reading that Delphi didn't require a runtime and that was that.

I still use Delphi for LOB apps - so very quick to design a user interface and have a working program ready to roll out, for example so transport can update their haulier quickly, or the accounting software has a shoddy smtp implementation that doesn't play well with our spam appliance so we create a tool that fires statements via mapi and let outlook deal with retries.