Studying electrical engineering starting 1985 our school used Pascal for first year and then ran with Modula 2 for subsequent years. In those days we were mostl

Studying electrical engineering starting 1985 our school used Pascal for first year and then ran with Modula 2 for subsequent years. In those days we were mostly on time share Vaxen, even as EE students only maybe 20% of students had any kind of PC or real computer at home. As of now I can't remember exactly why, but it seemed obvious to me at the time C was the place to be going forwards, maybe because I was working part time doing embedded design, or I had turbo C and a copy of Microsoft C fell my way, I can't really remember, but I do remember feeling that Pascal and Modula 2 were both a relative dead end when it came to useful skills for future employment.