I started with BASIC, and never liked Pascal at all (I eventually took to C like a duck to water), but it must have something going for it as a systems language

I started with BASIC, and never liked Pascal at all (I eventually took to C like a duck to water), but it must have something going for it as a systems language because the original Mac OS was largely written in Pascal (I’m not sure of the balance between Pascal and assembly). I wonder if we’d have fewer memory-related bugs now if the industry had standardised on Pascal strings (length prefix) rather than C strings (null-terminated)?