I didn't start with Turbo Pascal as when that was in wide use my parents still didn't allow me to go near a computer.
That didn't however stop Pascal from starting my career though as I started programming for real a few years later with Delphi 2 which was running a slightly improved version of Pascal with object oriented additions.
How I loved that programming environment: As quick and easy to use as VB, but able to produce real native binaries that run without any (external) runtime environment.
Plus you got all the windows SDK C headers pre-translated to Pascal so the whole windows API was ready at your fingertips (what could possibly go wrong when a self-thought teenager gets to write native code with complete unprotected access to memory and threading?).
Delphi is what I've used for my first commercial project too and Delphi is what I still use these days when I have to do some very, very rare Windows work).
The language is phantastic. Even after years of not looking at my code, it is very readable to me and I get back into productive mode very quickly.
Of course this might all just be nostalgia talking.
That didn't however stop Pascal from starting my career though as I started programming for real a few years later with Delphi 2 which was running a slightly improved version of Pascal with object oriented additions.
How I loved that programming environment: As quick and easy to use as VB, but able to produce real native binaries that run without any (external) runtime environment.
Plus you got all the windows SDK C headers pre-translated to Pascal so the whole windows API was ready at your fingertips (what could possibly go wrong when a self-thought teenager gets to write native code with complete unprotected access to memory and threading?).
Delphi is what I've used for my first commercial project too and Delphi is what I still use these days when I have to do some very, very rare Windows work).
The language is phantastic. Even after years of not looking at my code, it is very readable to me and I get back into productive mode very quickly.
Of course this might all just be nostalgia talking.