Hi!

>I had done some pascal long time ago (Was the first language in school).

Its good that you did not started from Basic. (Tsss, there is well-known opinion that programmer that started from Basic is not really programmer ;)

Delphi, however, is much more complex than Pascal, but most things from Pascal are maintained there, specially program flow constructions.

>Is there any good book to start.

I don't know. Try to search at Amazon.com

>What are major advantages of Delphi over VFP
>other than being non Microsoft.

Advantages:
- Much better speed of program running
- Very good to use it for complex algorithms
- More detailed programming
- Full support of OOP and RAD
Disadvantages compare to VFP:
- Completely another approach to events handling and controls interaction
- Abundant use of Windows API functions, so API knowledge is recommended but not required
- Existing database handling tools for Delphi are not so good as in VFP. Simple database application could be made in VFP more quickly than in Delphi (I tried both languages).

The combination of Delphi-VFP is quite good. You can use Delphi to write some ActiveX controls for VFP or DLL with algorithms that require quick running and full use of processor.