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Geez louise I've made some money with this tool. Always been good to me. Anders adulterated it a little too much for me, and I wish it had gone more M2 green threads, but it's still the best win desktop tool available.

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“He was the original author of Turbo Pascal and the chief architect of Delphi.” -- Wikipedia

The creator of Turbo Pascal and architect of Delphi adulterated Delphi too much?

How so?

Delphi was always challenged for a popularity slot because of the tyranny of C langs. My impression is that Anders went into "me too" mode, maybe from marketing pressure. They had a solid green thread lib but never made use of it in Delphi.

I think Visual Basic -- with the full weight of Microsoft behind it -- was a much bigger problem than thread libraries.

Well it's current state also. VB is gone, Delphi survived. Green threads and a different error mechanism besides exceptions would have encouraged more attention to server dev.

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