>>105564251
the lack of parametrism over arrays or even something as simple as an escape hatch in the type system made it unusable as anything but a pedagogical tool.
by the time this massive oversight was fixed with later languages, it had already lost and there were far better languages around.
>>105564251 >Pascal was superior.
Except Pascal's arrays and strings had very strict memory size limits that you hit pretty easily even back when 8086 chips were current, and working around them was intensely awkward.
