That's an age old discussion. The practical Pascal variants like Turbo Pascal and Quick Pascal, which compiled to native code, are essentially on par with C re

That's an age old discussion. The practical Pascal variants like Turbo Pascal and Quick Pascal, which compiled to native code, are essentially on par with C regarding the features. That includes access to absolute memory addresses, port I/O and the speed of the resulting code. I've done over a decade of Turbo Pascal coding, and going on three decades of C, and I agree they feel like essentially much the same thing.