I don’t think that’s completely true. Pascal was also designed as a general purpose language to compete with Algol and Fortran. See for example Wirth’s https:/

I don’t think that’s completely true. Pascal was also designed as a general purpose language to compete with Algol and Fortran. See for example Wirth’s https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20.500.11850/68712/eth-3290-01.pdf https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20....: “Compared to Algol 60, its range of applicability is considerably increased due to a variety of data structuring facilities. In view of its intended usage both as a convenient basis to teach programming and as an efficient tool to write large programs…”