Dr. Lions himself) it was emphasised to us that it was
not a production
language bur a *teaching* language;
In the early 90ths I written some larger programs in Turbo Pascal after years of
intensively working with my favored C&C++ language, and was surprised how well
designed the Borland language was. Thus, recently I installed Free-Pascal with its
comfortable IDE and since then I'm wondering why they always inventing new languages
as these 'old' C&Pascal languages are so well designed and implemented, that
I can't imagine that anything else is really needed.