Visual Basic pre-dates Delphi. Remember VB6 was the 6th iteration of Visual Basic and VB hadn't really changed that much since at least Visual Basic 3 (which was the earliest version I used).
I always thought Visual Basic got unfairly mocked because it was a fantastic language and framework for non-computationally expensive workloads.
Delphi, on the other hand, I struggled to enjoy. I really wanted to love Delphi because Pascal was one of my favourite languages but Delphi just didn't gel with me and it's hard to explain why. However Hejlsburg was also the author of Turbo Pascal and that achievement alone deserves to put him in the history books in my opinion.
It's also worth noting that your Apple/Jobs comment should probably acknowledge Steve Wozniak instead.
s/Jobs/Wozniak/
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by Ididntdothis on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @06:09PM
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True. As far as I know Jobs created almost nothing by himself but he was very good at recognizing and selling good things.
I would make a slight correction, Typescript and C# have proven that Anders Hejlsberg can design good languages, not MS.
Honestly, Hejlsberg is like the Midas of programming languages.
That man is a language designing genius.
He is the main designer behind:
Delphi (which inspired VB6, Microsoft's DOMINANT language through the 90's. But it's so similar to Delphi, that you can pretty much credit Hejlsberg for it's success), C#, and Typescript
Sometimes whole companies get credit for the genius of what is really just one or two architects.
When it comes to Apple innovations, it's Jobs
And when it comes to MS language innovations, with the exception of F#, it's Hejlsberg.