After learning Basic at home, once I went to high school, Pascal was the first "serious" programming language I've learned.

But since I discovered C a year or two later, I never looked back to Pascal. C felt more "pro", more flexible and seemed closer to metal. Pascal seemed more appropriate for developing GUI apps, while C seemed able to tackle anything, from the most intricate guts of the operating system, to drivers, games and GUI apps. Of course, that was silly, because Pascal was able to do everything that C did, but to my younger self it seemed less "serious" and "pro".