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No, Delphi back in the day was like VS/C# now... or, rather, the other way around, given that MS snatched Delphi's lead dev* to make C#.

*Anders Hejlsberg -- who also worked to bring us TypeScript.



C# and Windows Forms was a spiritual successor to Delphi in many ways, IMO. E.g. VCL had TObject <- TComponent <- TControl, WinForms had Object <- Component <- Control ...


Event(Sender: TObject) type of thing is everywhere in C# now.

Also, to add to your point: The TDataset MVC architecture was light years ahead of its time:

TVisualControl -> TDataSource -> TDatasetDescendant

Everything just fits in snugly.

Whoever thought of that architecture at Borland in the early days (1990s) deserves a legacy trophy truly!




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