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Today it might not make much sense, given C++, Ada, Rust and a few others are around.

But the Turbo Pascal 6.0 from 25 years ago certainly was more expressive, feature rich and safer than C of today.

The verbosity of Pascal is welcomed by those that had to maintain programs written by others.

TP6 had 255 byte strings and you couldn't implement your own WriteLn. It seemed like it was still breaking free from academic pascal.

In a world where the applications and OS had to fit under 640KB, I never had a problem with the string sizes.

I don't see why anyone would like to implement its own WriteLn.

You have the same issue with professional languages and I never saw anyone complaining about it.

Also C needs Assembly for its IO library and everyone is ok with it.