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What's missing? From my example ... Scripting. There is something to be said for uncompiled deployment on the web. You just drop text in a folder and it goes. If you have an error, no problem no rebuild no worries. Just edit the text and save (everyone has a text editor). Ruby, php, classic asp, even C# all do it and it's great. Score 1 check Language features like closures and anonymous types are especially advantageous in web development. Anonymous types makes binding to Sql results a lot easier, and closures are great for deferment of execution, allowing requests to be more efficiently handled by the server ( http://howtonode.org/why-use-closure). Score 2 check Better reflection leads and true single object for all types (even int and string and everything else), leads to a better templating system. Score 3 check Attribute flags allow user defined meta data which can then make life easier. e.g. I flag [Template, Logged] on a page and the system knows to track statistics on that page and run it through a template evaluation before the page is returned. Score 4 check Stack traces. When something goes wrong, like an error in formatting a template, or an error in Sql, I know exactly where the problem occurred. This is because all errors print a clearly defined stack trace, with line numbers, file names, assemblies, and error messages. Plus it doesn't stop my executable/page. The error is displayed for 1 user and the site doesn't stop. I know you can use try/except in Pascal, but it's really ppor compared to other tools stack traces. Score 5 check I could go on all night and into the morning. It's not a knock on Lazarus/Free Pascal. Lazarus/Free Pascal excel on the desktop and even the server. But webpages, we gotta pick our battles and with webdev, Lazarus/Free Pascal will never stack up against those other tools. Move on.
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