Well, I was using Pascal professionally from 1986 to 1988, and many of those objections were still valid. (Granted, on an embedded system rather than a PC, so the improvements in Pascal were slower in coming to us.)
I was using pascal in the early 90s, and the compilers to which I had access most certainly still had "Strongly typed, but arrays of different lengths are different types", which was incredibly annoying. (And for fun, consider the arguments against pascal's length-typed arrays and against go's lack of generics)
