Comment Comment by sehugg Look what Turbo Pascal/Delphi gave a PC developer in 1995:* An insanely fast compiler* Statically linked binaries -- no DLL hell (still important for certain kinds of applications)* A proper module system, no need for precompiled header nonsense* A UI framework/designer as easy to use as WinForms, at a time when the alternatives were MFC or Win32* An easy upgrade path to 32-bit WindowsAs long as you were ignorant of the world outside of a PC and Windows, it was nirvana. parent sehugg 12 years ago
* An insanely fast compiler
* Statically linked binaries -- no DLL hell (still important for certain kinds of applications)
* A proper module system, no need for precompiled header nonsense
* A UI framework/designer as easy to use as WinForms, at a time when the alternatives were MFC or Win32
* An easy upgrade path to 32-bit Windows
As long as you were ignorant of the world outside of a PC and Windows, it was nirvana.