[qewrffewqwfqew]

Bear in mind that this was written in 1981, at the beginning of a decade that saw enormous progress for Pascal, rendering most of "some guy"'s objections invalid. ANSI C only happened towards the end of that decade.

I think when an essay from 20 (or 35) years ago claiming "X sucks" is referenced, it's kinda foolish not to draw attention to the history that followed.

[AnimalMuppet]

Well, I was using Pascal professionally from 1986 to 1988, and many of those objections were still valid. (Granted, on an embedded system rather than a PC, so the improvements in Pascal were slower in coming to us.)

[GFK_of_xmaspast]

I was using pascal in the early 90s, and the compilers to which I had access most certainly still had "Strongly typed, but arrays of different lengths are different types", which was incredibly annoying. (And for fun, consider the arguments against pascal's length-typed arrays and against go's lack of generics)