This article talks about Wirth's Pascal as originally defined. But various language dialects evolved way beyond that, and some of them became effectively dominant.
Here's what low-level programming in Pascal looked like on DOS: http://www.retroarchive.org/swag/TSR/0022.PAS.html
Re:Best aspects of C
by loup-vaillant on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @05:57PM
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Thanks for the link, I'll go take a look. I'm pretty sure Oberon addressed some of the pitfalls cited there, if only so Wirth could write an OS with it. Not every language is OS worthy, after all.
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/bwk-on-pasc...