I had turbo pascal in middle school compter science lessons in 1999-2002. Also Object Pascal (Delphi or fpc) on university in 2003-2004.
I think it works very well as first programming language (even though my first programming language was BASIC on C64).
Pascal is very simple (skips over tons of corner cases and accidental complexity of C and C++), and strict enough to teach basic good habits unlike BASIC (or js or Python).
I don't think strictly object oriented language like Java is good for learning programming, too much stuff that is irrelevant at first but required. And dynamic languages are nice after you know at least one static language.
I think it works very well as first programming language (even though my first programming language was BASIC on C64).
Pascal is very simple (skips over tons of corner cases and accidental complexity of C and C++), and strict enough to teach basic good habits unlike BASIC (or js or Python).
I don't think strictly object oriented language like Java is good for learning programming, too much stuff that is irrelevant at first but required. And dynamic languages are nice after you know at least one static language.