Pascal as a first programming language

Did anyone else here learn Pascal as their first programming language? I did in college when I was a freshman. I don't want to state the year; I feel old enough already.

I started with some raw BASIC where you had to write line numbers and LIST statements to see what you've coded. QBasic was a godsend after that. But nothing was as awesome as when I pirated Borland Turbo Basic which I taught myself and used all through highschool. It was fast. The IDE was slick. I wrote 3d polygon engines, partially duplicated the DOOM engine, and the inline asm let me write even faster code.

At the time I felt bad that I didn't know C or C++, and assumed I should have been learning them. But every time I picked up those fugly piece of shit languages, my skin would crawl and soon I was back to the clean syntax, and clear structure of Pascal.

Ten years later I know for sure what I could only intuitively feel back then: C and especially C++ are some of the worst things that have ever happened to software developers.