[krylon]

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.