Pascal vs C

If you were to give a language like Python static typing and make it a compiled language instead of interpreted, you basically end up with something like Pascal. So how would you rate Pascal's abilities compared to C? I know dynamic typing requires runtime checking, but would it be possible to have dynamic typing in a compiled language like Pascal?

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I think it may be your tone (as we hear it). Textual communication has always had the problem that people can read a given passage in various ways and interpret the tone differently.

unless the programmer implements it
I think this may be another issue that people have with your statements. What you are saying is that Assembly doesn't have much in the way of pre-implemented features, which is technically correct. But many features are desirable and would in all likelihood be implemented in the assembly program anyway, and all you've done is interspersed them throughout the program instead of having them in a separate unit. I'd imagine that any serious Assembly programmer would have their own macros for adding them in, but at that point I don't think there is much difference between that and just instructing the compiler to remove the features you don't use like the Lisper was suggesting.