That’s an insult to Pascal. 
I spent 14 years working in UCSD Pascal, a highly advanced platform for its day. It was long in the tooth by the end of that period and C could always run rings around it for pure speed, but it had some advantages including extraordinary cleverness at running large, complex applications in very little memory and being object code portable. Just a few small, stable pieces optimized for Intel vs. Motorola CPUs or dealing with file locking, which differed depending on which of the many host operating systems we ran on (DOS, Windows, DESQview, Unix, Commodore 64…). Good discipline for learning the performance benefits of superior algorithms vs. brute force. Fun times.
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That sums it up succinctly.
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