"Jari-Matti Mäkelä" <jmjmak at utu.fi.invalid> wrote in message news:du25uo$29f3$1 at digitaldaemon.com... > IMO the worst things in Pascal are variable > declarations and too long keywords, otherwise it's damn illustrative and > rational language. Yet Pascal was buried by the arrival of C, despite having a long head start on the PC.