Delphi was a pile of steaming crud.  I have programmed in worse environments: Visual Basic would be one, but Delphi was seriously painful.  All the modernity of Pascal with the safety of C.  Layered over... what? 5 or 6 generations of the system, all of which behave differently.  Some of which still works - but you&#x27;ll never know until you try it and find why that wasn&#x27;t the way to go. <i>shudder</i>