I wouldn’t use it for my projects, but Delphi still has some strengths that are not so common these days:
- very fast compile times
- great backwards compatibility
- non programmers can create simple programs
- very fast compile times
- great backwards compatibility
- non programmers can create simple programs
What does that mean? You can be a non programmer and make simple programs in most general purpose programming languages.
Are you talking about the VCL library? In that case, there are many other languages that include the same like C# for example.
How good was Delphi at hiding MS-DOS quirks? I know C from that platform tended to be nonstandard with near and far pointers to accommodate memory segmentation, but was Delphi any better?
Which meant that as long as you didn't have to call C functions you just had to know and write that "it's a pointer" and nothing more.