On Wed, 9 Dec 2020, Bakul Shah wrote:

> please don’t blame c++ on pascal folks. stroustrup had nothing to do 
> with pascal.  

I certainly hope not; Pascal was meant to be a teaching language, not a 
production language.  As for C++, well, what can I say?  It should've been 
called C-- ...

You wrote your algorithm in Pascal, debugged it, and then rewrote it in 
your favourite language (in my case, ALGOL-W).

-- Dave