As I remember it, you could absolutely do all that in Pascal if you put your mind to it. But raw pointer manipulation was a bit more convoluted than in C so you

As I remember it, you could absolutely do all that in Pascal if you put your mind to it. But raw pointer manipulation was a bit more convoluted than in C so you usually resorted to inline asm. Today all that convolutedness might have been seen as "safety features" and the language marketed as a C-replacement. :)