"We need better languages for introductory computing. A good introductory language makes good compromises between expressiveness and performance, and between simplicity and feature-richness. Pyret is our evolving experiment in this space."

Object Pascal is the best language I know for education.

Programming education first must be about understansing algorithms I think.

However, learning something old or not useful in real world can be harmful. The best I think is to learn modern tech. The development world evolves too and other skills become more relevant.