Checking in as another 50 year old, still on HN, still an "engineer", experienced enough to use tools, not "stack"s. Admittedly I didn't start with Pascal, but

Checking in as another 50 year old, still on HN, still an "engineer", experienced enough to use tools, not "stack"s. Admittedly I didn't start with Pascal, but rather with BASIC and several assembly languages (1802, Z80, & 6809 were among the first I used). I learned Pascal after C, actually. I like things about both, but often wish that Wirthian languages would have won out. FWIW, these days I primarily use Java, C, C++ (when I must), and a smattering of other languages, with libraries and such chosen to match the problem at hand and the environment in which it must be solved.