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I was on a 4 hour seminar with one of it's creators Kristen Nygaard. It is compact.
I used Borland C++ Builder (3?) back in the late 90's. Fantastic already then. Much better than Microsoft's C++ compiler. You could even use the class libraries of MS C++. I think MS were only better in one niche,
MS OS related classes for obvious reasons.