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Delphi 7 was really an awesome upgrade from the Turbo Pascal 7 terminal. 2.bp.blogspot.com/-BJTw-f89LEc/TgDJ2HP3gsI/AAAAAA…

And being able to control every pixel on a screen was awesome as well as easy since most monitors were 14 inch, 640x460 or 800x600. 1024 x 768 resolution only came out much later.

Borland had their own flavour of C++ as well which allowed you to build components or re-use / extend existing windows components and pull them in via DLL file into you Delphi application.

For desktop development, Delphi was king and is still simpler than most of the Desktop development tools these days. If you weren't happy with the performance of a loop or something, you could just inline your own assembler directly in the Delphi code.

Hmm... that's a nice screenshot!

@JanVladimirMostert I learned programming with Delphi6 :D I used Delphi for a very long time whenever I had to write a GUI application, because it was king! Unfortunately, Embarcadero bought Delphi, did some cool stuff in the beginning, but it became worse and worse and the language is not even called Delphi any more (back to Object-Pascal). So, today, I prefer my web dev tools with Electron, which is the new king imho^^

It's a pity they ruined Delphi, it was years ahead of anything else back in the days and building desktop applications in Swing + Java was painful.