There is an unwarranted hate against BASIC. BASIC has of course also evolved since then and you can still write professional software in numerous BASIC dialects just as in Pascal.
Few years ago I evaluated FreePascal for writing desktop applications, I ended up instead with the BASIC dialect PureBasic (albeit commercial), better out of the box experience. Pascal is also slightly more verbose than BASIC.
Few years ago I evaluated FreePascal for writing desktop applications, I ended up instead with the BASIC dialect PureBasic (albeit commercial), better out of the box experience. Pascal is also slightly more verbose than BASIC.