Pascal was my first "real" language after Basic, learned it in the late 80s, wrote a couple of small apps for my dad in it.

Learned most of it from a wonderful book whose name I have forgotten, it had a wrench on its cover, I think?

Anyway, still rocking Pascal to this day, since I still maintain 3 moderately complex installers written with InnoSetup, which uses RemObjects Pascal as a scripting language.

4 years ago, a new guy on our team, fresh from school, who never even knew this language existed, picked up Pascal in a week, and started maintaining and developing our installers much further. He did grumble a bit about the syntax but otherwise did a splendid job. I thought that was a tribute to the simplicity of the language.