As I remember, Pascal was nicer than C, because it allowed to edit, compile and run the application all in memory, while with C, you had to go through all those

As I remember, Pascal was nicer than C, because it allowed to edit, compile and run the application all in memory, while with C, you had to go through all those C0, C1, (C2?), lib and link stages, all requiring hard disk activity, very slow. Also very nice total recursivity, like functions within functions, which only recently came to C#. Also very strict and convenient type system, you could define an integer type weight_in_grams and the compiler would not allow you to mix it with height_in_inches, or range types, I think modern languages have nothing like that ... miss it.