Remembering Delphi's Pascal roots
Some have pointed to the fact that Delphi—being based on Pascal, which was designed as a teaching language—is too simple to be a contender in today's complex programming environments. But nothing could be further from the truth. The extensions added to the language and the associated runtime library make it just as powerful as any other high-level, compiled programming language. In fact, the readability of this language and its strongly typed, structured design lends itself well to code that is easy to maintain and upgrade. It's object-oriented, compiles quickly, uses libraries and packages for modularity, and has a variety of frameworks to provide platform and device flexibility.
The Pascal syntax is often used in pseudocode for its universal readability. Instead of curly braces to define blocks (as in C# or JavaScript), Delphi uses begin-end. Instead of -lt or -gt, as in PowerShell, it uses less-than and greater-than...
