Quote Originally Posted by AthenaOfDelphi
One project I worked on, the company had around 15 Delphi developers. We worked our butts off to build this system. It won them some big contracts and was in its own right a fantastic system... at that point, middle management stepped in and decided that the whole thing needed to be re-written in C++ (at the time, C++ was one of the buzz words)... as a consequence, nearly the whole of the development team were forced out or gotten rid of. That is the kind of stupid business decision that drives languages forward, and whilst that sort of thing is happening, an older language, like Pascal, stands little chance of making head way in industry.
That's a horrible story! Really scary - and the worst part is that I do believe you! These things happen, big money is thrown away just because someone told a manager that they should follow a stupid buzz word.

Today, many young programmers go for languages like Python, since it clearly is better than C++, but then they, and their users, suffer from the pains of its poor performance. So there are people who are looking for alternatives.