> Brian W. Kernighan's excellent critique of Pascal Well, most of it was obsolete before the paper appeared (see Apple and Lisa Pascal), and the reason Pascal

> Brian W. Kernighan's excellent critique of Pascal Well, most of it was obsolete before the paper appeared (see Apple and Lisa Pascal), and the reason Pascal became very popular in the eighties was not the version Wirth created, but products like Turbo, VAX or Object Pascal, or the ones mentioned, and of course later also Delphi. Even Wirth himself demonstrated in his Oberon System, that the system could not be implemented without direct memory read write and pointer arithmetics (via SYSTEM module, and mostly without support of a type checker). The Pascal ISO standard came much too late and had little significance.