My senior year in high school was the first year they had a programming class and it was Pascal. The very next year they instead started teaching C++. As a con

My senior year in high school was the first year they had a programming class and it was Pascal. The very next year they instead started teaching C++. As a consequence out of necessity a couple of years later I ended up self teaching myself PHP then Ruby then JS. These days I'm pretty proficient with it. I had an easier time doing it because of those early concepts I learned with Pascal. I often wonder what would have happened if I had learned C++ instead.