title: Pascal and its current applications
body: <p>I studied Turbo Pascal in 1997 and I liked it very much as a language. Everything was very structured and the compiler made sure you did things the right way. I later tried Delphi but never got very interested in it.</p>
  
  <p>Since then I've used a lot of different programming and scripting languages (C, C++, PHP, Python, Perl, TCL) and recently I started thinking of my old Turbo Pascal days.</p>
  
  <p>So, I am wondering for what <em>practical</em> purposes Pascal could be useful today and what API's and frameworks are available. Does anyone have experience using Pascal in a modern development environment or is it just a dead language?</p>
  
  <p>To clarify my question: <strong>Can Pascal be used for modern application development. Is it being used and how?</strong></p>
  
  <p>Wikipedia links or quick Google searches will not help, I've been there. That is why I am asking the 'experts'.</p>