Not to step on the other interesting discussions going on in this thread, but...
I just want to say I never thought C was in anyways better then Pascal. I have been 'playing' at programming off and on for years and Lazarus/FreePascal has been the easiest language for me to grasp and the one I've done the most with, ...though it has so far just been a bunch of stuff for my personal use.
440bx hit the nail on the head, so to speak, as to why I was asking about converting C:
It is a fact that there are many more libraries written for one thing or another in C than in Pascal.
IE: more stuff to play with.
And I know people have done a lot of cool stuff with Pascal and there's a lot of packages in the package manager I can mess with, but my home PC, where I do my programming, lacks internet access, sooo.... yeah.
Other then that, I think my mistake was that I kept reading that Pascal is "C based" and thinking that conversion should be ...easier then it is.
So after this thread, I get it now, "C like" instead of "C based".
Also...
The real decision is, how much programming do the two of you want to learn ?. If the answer is "enough to write some capable programs" then, you'll do fine with knowing only Pascal. If the answer is "some really sophisticated programs", you can also do it in Pascal but, you'll need to know C because many applicable examples/samples will likely only be available in that language.
Actually, I think I'm happy enough as a hobbyist programmer, I doubt I'll ever get the skills to be really good at it, muchless doing it for a job, but I'm good enough that it serves my purposes.
So Lazarus/FreePascal is great for that. ^-^
My friend though, I really don't know how far he wants to take it. I'll hopefully find out soon enough, seems I've been missing him the past few weeks with everything going on. He wasn't going to start learning till Dec. when he's taking time off work. So there's time to find out.
But Thanks for all the advice / opinions, plus all the other stuff, it's been helpful and interesting to read. ^-^