Pascal on a micro was basically useless unless you were playing with algorithms copied from a book. Because it's a language written by people that only worked on mainframes connected to dumb terminals.
Want to write the string 'fat dog' on line 12 column 10? With Pascal you'd have to write a routine in assembly and call it. With C you use a trivial macro. Pascal was also generally very very slow. Almost as slow as basic which had better strings than Pascal.
“Pascal was slow” is a complaint about the compilers at the time, which is just reiterating my point. Anyway, if you wanted to draw something on the screen, just,
Want to write the string 'fat dog' on line 12 column 10? With Pascal you'd have to write a routine in assembly and call it. With C you use a trivial macro. Pascal was also generally very very slow. Almost as slow as basic which had better strings than Pascal.