Way back when, I wanted to be a programmer...
I learned BASIC on a TRS-80, then on other home computers from TANDY, then on the C-64.
I also learned Assembler on the C-64.
In 1986, I ran into Pascal on a DEC PDP-11/44 at college -- it was awesome.
I started looking for Pascal everywhere.
Back on the PC, I got into BASIC again, and into dabbled briefly in Assembler again. I did QuickBasic and AmigaBASIC (my favorite BASIC interpreter).
I dabbled in VisualBasic, but was not too impressed.
I started working as a hardware guy, not a software guy, and my career took off. I still programmed, sporadically, as a hobby... I loved TurboPascal.
Delphi came out, and I was in awe. Loved it, loved it, loved it.
I also started learning C and C++. Meh. Nice languages, but nothing like Pascal for me (totally subjective sentiment).
Back in 2011, I found the need to write some utilities for systems management purposes, and after playing around with Visual C++, I came across FPC and Lazarus, and felt right at home.
It works for me.
If I had never run into Pascal, I would probably have gone on to master C++ and later C#, since I spend most of my time on Windows systems these days.
For me, Pascal just happened to suit my personality, and has been quite capable of doing all that I have needed. (These days, I am mostly writing console utilities, but I have some additional software plans ahead.