However, Wirth himself realized the problems of Pascal and his later languages are basically improved versions of Pascal -- Modula, Modula-2, and Oberon. But these languages didn't even really displace Pascal itself let alone C -- but maybe if he had named them in a way that made it clear to outsiders that these were Pascal improvements they would have had more uptake.
Object Pascal got most of those improvements, hence why it was hard for them to be adopted, maybe if a big OS vendor had picked them instead of C++, or later Java it would have helped.
At least we have some of Oberon ideas living on Go, which despite my usual rants, is preferable to plain C.
