Nice. While I suppose Pascal did suffer a bit from its "learning language" beginnings, it was wildly popular as Delphi. If only Anders/Borland had designed Del

Nice. While I suppose Pascal did suffer a bit from its "learning language" beginnings, it was wildly popular as Delphi. If only Anders/Borland had designed Delphi as a VM, similar to the JVM. Of course he did that for MS with J++ (and then C#), but had Borland done it first with Delphi, would MS still have squashed them? Probably. As for the Introduction posted here, Nice! Well written and densely informative. Refreshing to see some focus on Pascal. One feature I'd like to see borrowed in other languages: Class references. In my experience this feature would be extremely useful for code generators, say in Java. For instance, you get virtual static methods and constructors. Man, that would be nice.