I really like Pascal as a language and Turbo Pascal in particular was an amazing piece of work. It was uncommonly user friendly for such a powerful piece of software running on the limited hardware of the time. The context sensitive help was terrific. Also amazingly fast, especially with self contained units. Visual Studio on a modern multicore multiGHz PC makes me wait longer for a build than Turbo Pascal did on my 486 or in some cases even my earlier 386.