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I made one of my first programs for PC with TB. I loved it back then but these days, i dont use any Pascal compilers nearly at all.
But stil, in my memories TB gets INT(7+) which is 8

I love Pascal. I started programming in BASIC by typing out Vic 20 games from those BASIC books they used to sell. Line numbers and GOTOs! I started programming in QBASIC and QuickBASIC when I got a PC, but I didn't know how to program without line numbers!

In high school they taught us Pascal. Pascal actually became a teaching language very early in its life (as did BASIC, because it was so easy to learn), because it's a structured programming language, and it's strongly-typed, which forces you to develop good programming habits. In C, you can use data however you want to, regardless of how you defined it. In Pascal, you have to show the compiler that you really want to use the data in a different way by either typecasting it or converting it. You also have to declare your variables at the top of the program/function/procedure, which make you think about variables you're going to need before you start programming (and prevents you from duplicating or losing track of variables, or wasting memory with unused variables).

Pascal was my first structured programming language, and forced me to use procedures and functions instead of GOTOs. It wasn't until I learned Pascal that I could program in QBASIC without line numbers, and use subroutines instead of GOSUBs.

Later on they taught us Delphi, which I still use. It's incredibly easy to design a GUI, and we already knew Pascal syntax. Delphi is really fun to work with. I definitely recommend Pascal to anyone who wants to learn good programming habits, or wants to use Delphi to make Windows or Linux programs.

Once you've learned how to program, you can learn any other programming language by learning the new syntax and rules. Although Pascal isn't used as much as C, which is syntactically similar to Java and PHP, learning Pascal first will give you a good foundation in the principles of programming and prevent you from getting bad habits. C is known for its ease of creating spaghetti code and can become totally unreadable when written by an inexperienced programmer.