[badsectoracula]

> like the lack of short-circuiting in boolean expressions. I assume modern Pascal compilers have resolved this

I think your ideas on Pascal are a little outdated if you assume short circuit boolean expression are a modern Pascal compiler change. Turbo Pascal, one of the by far most common dialects, had that since the 80s, meaning this change has been around for four decades (assuming Turbo Pascal didn't take it from some other popular at the time dialect like USCD Pascal).