I love Pascal, as it was the first programming language that I ever learned (ignoring machine languages) and so I have an irrational fondness for it. That said

I love Pascal, as it was the first programming language that I ever learned (ignoring machine languages) and so I have an irrational fondness for it. That said, I agree with Kernighan here, for real-world use it's not even in my top 10 favorite langauges.