hello,

What happened to the advantages page in the Free Pascal website?

It used to be: http://www.freepascal.org/advantage.html

I would like to reference it from an article, but it seams to be removed. Why? Maybe it could be added back?

thanks,

It was removed Sun Mar 9 21:28:38 2008 UTC:
http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&root=fpchtml&revision=587

Vincent

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote

What happened to the advantages page in the Free Pascal website? It used to be: http://www.freepascal.org/advantage.html

I got no idea why it's gone, but you can get to it via the "Web Archive" site.

http://web.archive.org/web/20071103083622/www.freepascal.org/advantage.var

Last one available dates back to 09 Nov 2007.

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- Graeme -

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Because it was written in a quite personal and confrontational style, but nevertheless presented as a common view of the entire FPC team. Some people, me in particular, did not like that. I do not consider such a page worth spending time on either, but since some people do think it is quite important to have I only started a discussion about it when someone posted this link to the fpc-pascal list: http://www.screamingduck.com/Article.php?ArticleID=43&Show=ABCE

I proposed to either replace the advantages page with a link to that page, or to remove it entirely. Some of the developers did not like linking to that page (since we don't control it, and not everyone agree with everything in that article either). So the page was removed.

Jonas

I for one think that the page is very important to clarify strong points of Free Pascal for eventual users. I will be moving the old contents to the wiki, where they can be worked and improved.

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/FPC_Advantages

While copying it I removed most of the aggressive tone.

I think we can't mistake passion and excitement with aggressivity. A completely neutral tone may be utherly boring to read. A more excited tone is much more interresting, but I do agree it was somewhat aggressive and that needs to be changed.