To be fair, the rant (and most of the misconceptions) about Pascal are about Wirth defined Pascal, not the much later extended Pascals that introduced things li

To be fair, the rant (and most of the misconceptions) about Pascal are about Wirth defined Pascal, not the much later extended Pascals that introduced things like "byte absolute" types. But you're right in that no one has probably tried to suffer through strict Wirthian Pascal since the last CDC Cyber got shut down except on a bet. (Turbo Pascal on CP/M-80 was my goto for a number of years)