It also didn't help that Berkeley Pascal for BSD was terrible. Made a subroutine call for every subscripting operation. This discouraged using Pascal on UNIX.
Really? Yeah Pascal UNIX compilers were quite bad.
When I got into university, I had my first set of Pascal classes on UNIX.
Coming from a background of multiple Turbo Pascal versions, I was on TPW for Windows 3.x by then, I was dismayed having to do university assignments in P2C, using original ISO Pascal (it wasn't even capable of the ISO Extended version).
So no wonder that Pascal on UNIX hardly got any love.
I think only HP-UX and VMS Pascal variants were actually relatively good.
