Mid to late 90&#x27;s in Portugal.<p>When I came to learn C, I was already quite an expert in Turbo Pascal, version 6.0 by then.<p>Comparing C to Turbo Pascal 6.0 in terms of features and safety just felt like &quot;meh!&quot;.<p>Thankfully I got someone that around the same time gave me a copy of Turbo C++ 1.0 and I learned how to get some of the Turbo Pascal features back, while having the C portability and joined the C++ ranks for a few years.