Many school systems still teach Pascal or Object Pascal (which includes Delphi). So this question is relative to the country that a person is talking about. S

Many school systems still teach Pascal or Object Pascal (which includes Delphi). So this question is relative to the country that a person is talking about. South Africa, Jamaica, Russia, Brazil, Turkey, etc... use various dialects of Object Pascal (Turbo Pascal, PascalABC, Free Pascal/Lazarus, Delphi...). Various teachers and school systems find that Pascal/Object Pascal is superior for introducing and teaching programming concepts. We have to keep in mind that part of the reason that Pascal was created, was to teach it in schools. But don't get confused (as some detractors try to make it seem Pascal is only for academic purposes), as Turbo Pascal and Delphi show that Pascal can be successfully used commercially too. There was quite some controversy years ago, when South African schools switched over from Java to Delphi. The school system felt that Delphi/Object Pascal was the better choice. To get a taste, check out Mr Long Education's (a teacher from South Africa) Delphi/Object Pascal YouTube channel below (there are a number of similar such Delphi/Object Pascal YouTube channels) https://www.youtube.com/user/MrLongEducation/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/MrLongEducation/videos