[fpc-pascal] Pascal is alive!!??

[Aavani at iust.ac.ir]

In the ACM-ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest dropped 
pascal for this year final competitions and for next year, the students 
are not allowed to use pascal as their programming language. Did you 
know this? What is your idea? Also, in TopCoder site, you can not 
develop your programs with Pascal while as I know, Pascal has all the 
properties that C++ or JAVA have.

Any idea? Is there any technical problem with Pascal to be used in 
TopCoder's contest?