I don't know why Pascal has such a poor name. I don't enjoy using it (only because I prefer braces or whitespace), but it's much higher level than C++ with comp

I don't know why Pascal has such a poor name. I don't enjoy using it (only because I prefer braces or whitespace), but it's much higher level than C++ with compilers that emit pretty tight code. That is pretty rare nowadays. There are many reasons to praise it.