It should be noted that even when Kernighan wrote that, with the exception of the stylistic bits (e.g. where you put the semicolon), most of the issues he has d

It should be noted that even when Kernighan wrote that, with the exception of the stylistic bits (e.g. where you put the semicolon), most of the issues he has didn't exist in the Pascal dialects that people used. His comments were about standard Pascal but few really confined themselves to standard Pascal - even the standard itself didn't do that, IIRC it explicitly mentions that implementations are going to extend it as that was an expectation at the time. In general Wirth's languages weren't meant to be taken as a gospel but as a base to expand from (even his own Oberon system slightly extends the language described by his Oberon language report).