I would have bought something like Turbo Pascal today. The minute they did away with Turbo Pascal I feel like they basically marked themselves as a legacy only company, I don't know anyone who is using them for net new projects that wasn't already all in on Delphi, you don't see new startups using them anyway. Had they kept Turbo Pascal, I do wonder how much more prevalent they could have been compared to now. It's still a solid way to make a native GUI.

> I would have bought something like Turbo Pascal today.

What's stopping you? You can open your wallet to lazarus today, if you wanted.

I've used Lazarus, very dated and doesn't look and feel quite as polished, there's been a lot of modern IDE advancements and none of them have made their way to Lazarus.

I can assure you that Turbo Pascal in Portugal was a bit more than that, because around 100 euros in today's money was the price with students discount.

As owner of a few versions with student pricing.

I suspect that Borland were doing the normal American computer exchange rates of 1 USD = 1 GBP = 1 EUR

Back in the 2000s that would have translated into more USD so not surprising.

Turbo Pascal had been replaced in 1995 by Delphi.

When they dropped the Borland name they increased the price to Enterprise levels and so not $99 anymore