Well it's hard to say. Many people still stick to the old Turbo Pascal, but the tendension is to switch to "something" newwer. Delphi books are very common, second place after C++, so a great number of people choose Delphi. If someone says that can code and it's not any net language then it'll probably be object pascal or just TP. If it's about commercial side, most of small software firms choose to pay for Borland's Delphi, this is for programs like bureau managment, sales databases etc.

For example, me I have so-so Delphi knowledge, but I've been sitting in Turbo Pascal since I had my first computer. Therefore, I switched to FPC and I'm really satisfied with it. And I'm sure there are more people who went that way.

If it's about oop - cpp, I think that cpp is more popular among younger folks who are just getting started. However pascal is "sometimes" taught in schools.

Ofcourse there are discusions like you mentioned, but in my opinion, sides are about fifty-fifty