Pascal represented a worse compromise between to-the-metal programming and structured programming concepts than C did. Now, arguably, you would say that some o

Pascal represented a worse compromise between to-the-metal programming and structured programming concepts than C did. Now, arguably, you would say that some of the abstractions offered were reasonable tradeoffs, but at the time, things like the nature of strings and the second class support for pointers and the difficulty of (and awkward syntax for) memory management meant that it was fundamentally limited in applicability.