In some good news, two indicators indicating programming language popularity show interrest in Pascal is increasing:

Tiobe TPCI index:

At the beginning of 2007, I thought C# and D would become the winners and Perl and Delphi the losers. C# was indeed one of the big winners, and Perl one of the big losers. But the forecasts for D and Delphi were completely wrong. There has been no breakthrough for D. On the other hand, Delphi reclaimed a top 10 position...
http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

Ohloh language popularity statistics:

http://www.ohloh.net/languages/14