We should have followed the path of the Wirthian language and Ada. I think part of the reason it wasn't followed is because Pascal wasn't as good as C, but Pasc

We should have followed the path of the Wirthian language and Ada. I think part of the reason it wasn't followed is because Pascal wasn't as good as C, but Pascal was intended as a teaching language, not a real world language. Modula-2 was intended as a real world language but it was too late. There was a while in the 80's when Ada was more popular than C++ but only because of the DoD. The DoD, NASA and air traffic control systems still use Ada.