[nickpsecurity]

"30 years ago I was discussing these arguments between those using Assembly and those that dared to use C, Pascal, Basic and Modula-2 in home computers.

20 years ago I was discussing these arguments between those using C, Turbo Pascal and those that dared to use C++, Object Pascal features in Turbo Pascal/Delphi."

Nice take on it. :)

"But I would rather have a full stack language that offers me the safety of Algol languages, without C underpinnings."

Exactly. That's always a Pascal advantage. You can be clear on exactly what it does and it's probably safe by default.