This makes me think of when I was writing CGI web apps in Turbo Pascal 6.0 running on Windows 95 using AOLserver (I think) in 1995 or so. (Even back then I remember that it felt odd, like two worlds of computing colliding in an unexpected manner. This was just before I got into Linux/SunOS/Unix - perhaps mostly because it felt like it was the way to for the web backend, and the web obviously seemed like something to bet on.)

Turbo Pascal fealt great then (everything was coherent, relatively well-designed, speedy, etc), but after recently looking back at the code from then.. ehh.. we have better things now.

(Except perhaps in ease of getting started - for beginners.)