I worked with Pascal for 10 years, through the majority of the 2010s. I think my biggest complaint about the language was the ecosystem. Units for modern prot

I worked with Pascal for 10 years, through the majority of the 2010s. I think my biggest complaint about the language was the ecosystem. Units for modern protocols that would easily available in other languages, including C and C++, were hard to come by with Pascal/Object Pascal. And most of those that exists were often incomplete, thus requiring additional modification to make workable. This made projects that required any sort of advancement in protocol - even just for a prototype - scale quickly, and most of them we abandoned before we got there, unless the old tech (in our case, mostly self-designed) was proving too problematic. Too a lesser extend is the age of Pascal. But I would apply this critique to C and C++ as well. Hell, even Java and C# are showing their age these days. There are just some quirks in Pascal, one needs to remember, like 1-indexed strings (I know they added an option for 0-indexed strings later) and that you can - theoretically - make arrays any-indexed. But all languages - including far younger ones - have their own quirks.