When I was an undergrad in electrical engineering at UT, the computer language they were teaching was Pascal. Not only Pascal, but Think's Lightspeed Pascal on Apple Macintosh, which in the world of electrical engineers, has been used in practice by, well, nobody. Ever. I don't even think Apple ever used Pascal on their own hardware.
Fortunately for me
a) I already knew Pascal from my high school Comp Sci courses so the course was an easy A and
b) I interned for a company that required me to learn C and C++ on SunOS/Solaris Sparcstations