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Pascal is one of the procedural languages developed during the 1960’s.
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Pascal Paradigm(s) imperative, structured
Appeared in 1970
Designed by Niklaus Wirth
Typing discipline static, strong, safe
Major implementations CDC 6000, ICL 1900, Pascal-P, PDP-11, PDP-10, IBM System/370, HP, GNU
Dialects Borland, Turbo Pascal, UCSD Pascal
Influenced by ALGOL W
Influenced Ada, Component Pascal, Java,[1][2][3] Modula, Modula-2, Modula-3, Oberon, Oberon-2, Object Pascal, Oxygene, Seed7Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in 1968–1969 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
A derivative known as Object Pascal designed for object-oriented programming was developed in 1985.
During university studies in the 1980’s Pascal was the language of choice in the statistics area. Many people saw it as a better procedural language alternative to Fortran, with its interesting data structures and language style.
Link to Pascal information at … via Wikipedia where the quote above originated.
Link to Pascal enthusiast site here.
Pascal was named in honour of the great mathematician Blaise Pascal.
Download programming source code and rename to test.pas.
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