Farewell Delphi!

I came across a great farewell to Delphi tribute over at http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk while browsing Roumen Strobl from NetBeans Weblog.

A snippet as featured in Roumen’s post:

Oh they didn’t write Skype in Javascript
Or Scheme or other Lisp.
And they didn’t use Java or that C sharp
‘Cos it had to be fast and crisp.
And they didn’t write Skype in C++
Though they wanted it tough and tight.
And they didn’t write Skype in Vis Bas
Cos Vis Bas is just shi ain’t quite right.

And Delphi, your easy to use programming environment and lack of runtime dependencies , are going to be greatly missed