I learned programming in Turbo Pascal in the 90s, and for the past 6 months, I have been using Delphi and Free Pascal through Lazarus.
Coming from php, I like Pascal a lot, the strict nature of the language makes it very easy to program, read other peoples code and likewise, have other people read your code.
Free Pascal works really well in WindowsCE environments, which is what I am currently working on (RFID Scanner).
Lazarus is supposed to be a write once compile for many OS's, but it still lacks the proper support for more obscure OS's like amiga, morph, BeOS and so on, though Lazarus comes prepared for the lot, includen CPU varianst, like x86, arm, 68k, ppc, mips and a few others.
Pointers are so much easier in pascal than in C.
OOP in objfpc is also very easy to use, though not as flexible as other OOP languages.
