Thanks a lot for the detailed answer. I knew some of these facts, but I'm surprised all of it has such a lasting effect. My point was that even if one deems Pa

Thanks a lot for the detailed answer. I knew some of these facts, but I'm surprised all of it has such a lasting effect. My point was that even if one deems Pascal an inferior language, they can't deny it has a complete set of control structures so experience of programming in Pascal is transferable to other languages.