The thing I saw with Pascal in the late 70's / early 80's was that in order to handle industrial use cases, each computer company invented its own dialect (I wo

The thing I saw with Pascal in the late 70's / early 80's was that in order to handle industrial use cases, each computer company invented its own dialect (I worked on one at Burroughs). That was one of the problems Ada addressed. But its initial problem was the cost of compilation and builds on the hardware of the time. That got sorted out by the end of the 80's, but then other factors like contractors not wanting their customer telling them how to do their work came into play. Sort of a confusion of requirements and implementation methods.