That&#x27;s such an interesting essay -- some of the complaints seem so egregious, it&#x27;s no wonder Pascal didn&#x27;t take off. All of the complaints seem (to my eyes) very reasonable. The high points:<p>No closures, so global vars everywhere<p>No breaks in flow control, it&#x27;s goto (deprecated) or nothing<p>Strongly typed, but arrays of different lengths are different types.<p>Casting types is not possible<p>A number of annoying order-of-code requirements<p>&quot;and&quot; and &quot;or&quot; have no guaranteed precedence or order of operation..(!)<p>Those are enough to make me want to hurl the compiler against a wall.