<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 27, 2021, at 4:01 PM, joseph turco via fpc-pascal <<a href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org" class="">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I am a new programmer, and I thought I'd learn Pascal.</span></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Good day Joseph,<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Pascal is the language I was taught in 1986. I’m still using it.</div><div class="">First question to ask yourself is why and what do you need to program?</div></div><div class="">For myself, I use Pascal for automation, file I/O, parsing text and data, mathematical explorations and 2D/3D graphics.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class="">Thomas Young</div></body></html>