From what I hear, Embarcadero is treating C++ Builder and Delphi well but the market has moved on. Yes, they've enhanced it, but true, the market has moved on and ships have sailed.
Two of the greatest crafted tools (for their time) were Turbo C 1.0 (June 1987) and FoxPro 1.0 (Oct 1989). As much as I love releases like SQL 2012 for what they can do (like the new Columnstore index that provides huge increases in speed), I don't know if I'll ever be as impressed as those two tools. For their time, they were game changers. I've said this before, I was in Toledo when Dave Fulton did the famous demo of Fox on one machine and dBase IV on the other - was just blown away by what Fox 1 could do.
