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Agreed. Pascal has several advantages as a first language. The original Pascal (oP) language is small and quick to learn. ISO Pascal (iP) adds objects to oP,
by randcraw 10y ago
Agreed. Pascal has several advantages as a first language. The original Pascal (oP) language is small and quick to learn. ISO Pascal (iP) adds objects to oP, so the transition from oP to iP invites a graceful transition from procedural to object oriented thinking.
As a type safe language, Pascal also introduces concepts of data placement and memory management early on, and supports dynamic allocation and pointer access clearly and painlessly.
Learning C, C++, or Python after Pascal should be quick and easy, since they're just variants and generalizations on the primitives learned from oP and iP.