Many of us may have thought that the language PASCAL is long time dead.
But surprise - its alive! For those of us who want to compile x64 executables, it may be an alternative to C.
Free-PASCAL (http://www.freepascal.org/)
Free PASCAL is available in many languages.
Free Pascal was started by Florian Paul Klämpfl, the author of Pelles C, Pelle Orinius, is Swedish.