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by einpoklum 1208 days ago
> Borland came out with Turbo Pascal that went through numerous iterations and by the end of the 1980s I thought it was much better than C for the IBM PC

I was first taught proper programming on Turbo Pascal in 1992 as a summer class (for nerdy kids obviously) I took when I was 11. It was taught by some undergrad student from what would eventually be my alma mater. I have very vague, but very fond, memories of that experience :-)