Same for me as well. In school, we started with GW-BASIC and moved to Turbo Pascal. Pascal was a great learning language and the fundamental concepts I learned

Same for me as well. In school, we started with GW-BASIC and moved to Turbo Pascal. Pascal was a great learning language and the fundamental concepts I learned in Pascal translated very well to other languages. Looking back, I didn't even realize there's a difference between Turbo Pascal and official Pascal. The Turbo Pascal IDE is all we knew and it worked very well on those IBM PC's.