Ah, Free Pascal. It made me remember the first semester at my University where everywhere I looked I found Microsoft. I refused to do assignments and projects on Windows, preferring instead Linux (Slackware, then). In the first semester we studied programming in Pascal and I used the Free Pascal compiler on my Linux to learn and play with the language, while everyone else used Turbo Pascal on DOS/Windows.
At the company I work at, we had this guy who had written a program for our accounting department in Delphi. This spring, he quit, and I was given the task of maintaining that code.
Normally, I tend to avoid using classical IDEs and prefer Emacs, so it took me a while to get comfortable with Delphi (the IDE). But once I had gotten used to that, I was able to jump right in, despite never having touched Pascal before. Pascal is certainly not the sexiest kind of language around, but it does make it easy to write highly readable code. I can see why people would want to stick to it.
Delphi! You're right, I completely forgot about that. I knew a guy that was writing unholy piles of code for some company in Delphi up until at least 2005 or thereabouts. By then I thought it was really odd that someone was still using that, and good-naturedly teased him about it a little.