Huge respect for Turbo Pascal and Delphi. What later came out of it, essentially was contrary to the spirit of those two, as others pointed out.<p>Turbo Pascal in a way is still way more featured environment than many available, with step debugger and profiler and decent editor. It touched a lot of developers and for that I will always be grateful.<p>I think it is about time, it dies and not soil any more memories of glory days.