"Can you imagine trying to make a run-time for a high level language in Pascal" You mean like the strings in Delphi? Yeah, I can since I use them daily. String

"Can you imagine trying to make a run-time for a high level language in Pascal" You mean like the strings in Delphi? Yeah, I can since I use them daily. Strings in Delphi nowadays are actually more like classes in java than Old Pascal strings. Then depending on your intend either get them to be arrays or old strings after linker goes over your code. Best of both worlds, and on top of it, if you really want, you can definitely shoot yourself in your leg with unsafe operations. So in the end is best of both worlds and worse of 3rd world. Though the 3rd one you really need to go out of your way to have it as bad as C strings are.