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Anders Hejlsberg is one of Microsoft's handful of distinguished engineers. He is known for having developed the Borland Turbo Pascal compiler and for having been chief architect of Borland's Delphi technology. Hejlsberg left Borland, where he last served as chief engineer, to join Microsoft in 1996. Since joining Microsoft, Hejlsberg's greatest claim to fame has been fathering the C# programming language. Originally code-named "Cool," C# was designed to be Microsoft's Java killer.
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Do you know that the man behind Delphi is Anders Hejlsberg, one of the original members of the Borland company. During his time with Borland he extended its' Turbo Pascal compiler. Eventually he became the chief architect for the team which produced the replacement for Turbo Pascal - Delphi. As a chief architect at Borland, Hejlsberg secretly turned Turbo Pascal into an object-oriented application development language, complete with a truly visual environment and superb database-access features. Once touted as the "VB killer," Delphi has remained a cornerstone product for Borland.
By rights we should be using a real VB9 with decent tool support by now. But VB was killed off in 2001. Have you considered