Stef Mientki: > it's just Object Pascal , which is inferior to Python. They are quite different languages, you can't compare them in a simple way. Delphi is statically typed, and compiles very quickly producing "small" exes; "algorithmic" code can run a hundred times faster than Python code. There are lot of people still that think that a statically typed language is safer. Delphi is kinda old, so today there are better languages than Delphi (like D), but when Delphi 2-3 was out, there weren't many other languages with IDEs at its level, especially for programs with a nice GUIs plus interfaces with DBMSs. Today you can write programs with FreePascal, that is free. Bashing other languages doesn't make Python any better.
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