There are a lot of stories here about starting out and/or really starting to flourish as developer with Turbo Pascal. I'm in the same boat. I started out with BASIC, then to Borland C of all things. One day as a kid I downloaded the source to some DOS viruses from a "l33t" HPAVC BBS -- they were in Pascal. I fell in love. This started a long line of developing programs in TP, then to Delphi in the Windows world.

While I don't really use TP much anymore albeit the occasional pet project using FPC's cross build ability to produce DOS binaries, Pascal has a special place in my heart :)