>From what I hear, Embarcadero is treating C++ Builder and Delphi well but the market has moved on.
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>Yes, they've enhanced it, but true, the market has moved on and ships have sailed.
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>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.

Wasn't Turbo Pascal the real groundbreaker from Borland? Turbo C came later and was a very similar product for a different language. A $49 compiler at a time when compilers cost hundreds of dollars got everyone's attention, and it was actually a good product.

I worked with Delphi for about a year and liked it a lot. It had great ease of use features like VB and could go right down to the metal like C/C++.