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Just read it, Kernighan's "Why..." http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html No single point in this article is relevant today and pertinent to Object Pascal. None. Too out of date.

Delphi does have messages, templates are not part of OO, multiple inheritance is present in Delphi in some restricted form (I* interfaces) and the rest in your post is just emotions.

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Hold on, I thought in Delphi you still have to separate constants, typedefs, variables and code into different blocks, no?

True, but in classical Pascal they should go in particular order, and that's what K. is complaining about (no wonder), while for Turbo/Object the order is not important. That was a purely syntactic obstacle and nothing serious.

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