Comment by cxr

This comment started out strong, but then:

> Pascal compilers have traditionally been written in Pascal, hardly a language which conjures up a "low level" image.

It may be the case that it doesn't conjure up such an image, but Pascal is approximately on the same rung as Zig or D—lower level than Go, higher level than assembly. If folks have a different impression, the problem is just that: their impression.