I find it strange that he complained about Pascal's lack of dynamic arrays, when the Pascal solution is to use pointers (exactly what C does for all arrays and strings anyway).

Many of his other points are solved by Turbo Pascal and Delphi/Object Pascal.

But of course nowadays there are better languages for real world programming. It's just a shame that there's nothing as simple and elegant for teaching programming ().

() lisp is even more elegant, but it has a lot of gotchas and it's so far from mainstream that using it for teaching isn't a good idea IMHO