>>34369i don't know if i would call it a love letter, just an explanation of why pascal is a good teaching language for novice programmers. obviously it's not the most useful or flexible language and it has a lot of annoying limitations that c/c++ doesn't have especially ansi standard pascal and it only really became a useful practical language through non-standard extended dialects such as turbo pascal/delphi/freepascal, but for someone who knows nothing about programming its easier to start with pascal than it is to start with c or c++ and get bogged down in all the various quirks and gotchas of those languages, especially c++ which is just footgun city.
>>34370delphi and pascal are the same thing, delphi is just the name of borland's later pascal dialect which succeeded turbo pascal. and pascal/delphi are still used quite heavily today believe it or not, particularly in eastern europe. pascal was huge in the eastern bloc due to being taught extensively in public schools and institutes in the ussr, and borland turbo pascal was extremely cheap and also very easy to pirate and it ran on a single floppy disk and could compile code very fast on a shitty cheap IBM PC clone with no hard drive, so pascal sort of became the lingua franca of eastern european programmers.