I am reminded of an open letter / post from many years ago. Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html .

> There is no significant way in which I found Pascal superior to C, but there are several places where it is a clear improvement over Ratfor. Most obvious by far is recursion: several programs are much cleaner when written recursively, notably the pattern-search, quicksort, and expression evaluation.

While the author goes about comparing Pascal to C (and Ratfor), he fails to disclose his affiliation with being the author of C.