[dvirsky]

I learned Pascal when I was in my teens (not my first language, but the first "serious" one after Basic and LOGO) so to me it's always associated with my childish hacking attempts and very bad code IN ALL CAPS.

I remember a couple of my friends bought a C book and their code looked so cryptic and weird in comparison, so I didn't bother learning it, and then I kinda lost interest for a few years before picking up more serious programming in my 20s. In the mid-late nineties everyone was doing C++ and Java, so I never got back to Pascal. I had some good fun with it for a few years.