[AnimalMuppet]

Do you consider Modula-2 to be a Pascal?

But yes, modern stuff should not be judged by the 1970 edition. I got soured on Pascal by having to use an ISO standard compiler on an embedded system; it was painful in several areas. But I shouldn't judge modern C by pre-ANSI C, or modern C++ by cfront. So, while I still say that ISO Pascal was deeply flawed, I shouldn't hold that against all Pascal versions.

[pjmlp]

Nicklaus Wirth considers Modula-2 as Pascal evolution, so there is that.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1238844.1238847