> Pascal is not a low level language - quite the opposite.

Why do you say that?

Back in the 80s and early 90s it was the primary competitor to C, and in an alternate universe we might have ended up using Pascal decedents instead of C decedents.

For example the original Mac Toolbox was first written in Pascal: https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Macintosh_Toolbox

The original Mac API were all native Pascal: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Basic_Pascal_Tutorial/History