"Pascal" may not be that bad (although I've never touched it), but my very brief exposure to trying to figure out some code written for 1985-ish vintage MacOS sent any urge I might of had to try to write anything low-level for it running screaming into the hills. I have quite a lot of respect for anyone that's able to handle an API with that many sharp edges and make it work.
It does amuse me how early Macintosh advertising material was pretty forceful in pushing the "32 bit"-edness of the 68000 CPU as being superior to IBM's 16 bits, but just casually poking through "Inside Macintosh" finds *copious* examples of vital data structures and pointers which suffer scalability issues due to the use of 16 bit integers . ;^)

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