Yeah...Mesa/Cedar are excellent examples of how to extend Pascal to create a really first rate systems programming language. Similar with the PERQ extended Pas

Yeah...Mesa/Cedar are excellent examples of how to extend Pascal to create a really first rate systems programming language. Similar with the PERQ extended Pascal used to write POS. And of course the Modula->Ada line are are pretty decent to outstanding systems programming languages. > Pascal dialects This is, of course, the important point. The 1974 Wirth defined version of Pascal was pretty crappy, or at least limited, as a systems language and even the 83 ISO standard didn't much change that. However, the variations and extensions that emerged fixed those shortcomings pretty fast, to the extent that Kernigans paper was almost out of date wrt "contemporary" Pascal when it was published.