I find it strange that there seems to be a widespread perception among many programmers that Pascal is a "dead" language. A typical comment is "What!, people still use Pascal?"
Delphi/Object Pascal is currently at position 13 on the Tiobe index, ahead of Go, Visual Basic, and objective C. That's hardly "dead".
I have a theory about this; it maybe because Pascal was once great (throughout the 80's and up to the mid 90's or so when I first learned it at Uni), but has since given way to C++, Java, and scripting languages like Python, so it's now relatively obscure. It's "dead" in comparison to what it once was, but still more popular than more niche languages such as Lisp or Fortran, which never really had a heyday as general purpose languages. Even though Lisp and Fortran are even older than Pascal, you don't seem to hear the comment "What!, people still use Lisp?".