I've mostly learned programming in Turbo Pascal (I programmed a little in C64 and Turbo Basic before, but I haven't really understood programming at that point

I've mostly learned programming in Turbo Pascal (I programmed a little in C64 and Turbo Basic before, but I haven't really understood programming at that point yet). I think Pascal is a good compromise between Python and C - it's compiled, low-level and statically typed, but has a reasonable string type and operations included out of the box, and much less quirks than C. It's a shame Pascal is so outdated by now.