Well, the Windows API was a fundamentally C based API and that probably did more for it than most things. The Microsoft example code was all C and C++. Delphi was great for many years, Borland didn't really start to sink until around the Delphi 5 era, if I recall correctly. Until then it was widely regarded as a much superior solution to MSVC++ and was used for many things, though mostly business apps.
I used to be a Delphi programmer and worked on, amongst other things, an open source video game project :) Ah, good times.
I used to be a Delphi programmer and worked on, amongst other things, an open source video game project :) Ah, good times.