You can't ignore context. Fortran is a very strong language for a specific application - you can't compare it to Javascript.
Delphi was a framework using Pascal. It was a revolution at the time - and you can see it's influence in many software tools available today.
You could argue that the current SQL/Rails API/JSON/Backbone/JQuery/CoffeeScript/HTML/CSS abomination we've created could be improved or replaced with something as disruptive as Delphi was at the time.
Delphi was a framework using Pascal. It was a revolution at the time - and you can see it's influence in many software tools available today.
You could argue that the current SQL/Rails API/JSON/Backbone/JQuery/CoffeeScript/HTML/CSS abomination we've created could be improved or replaced with something as disruptive as Delphi was at the time.