The Pascal Programming Language
 | Pascal |
| Name: | Pascal |
| Created: | 1970 |
| By: | Professor Niklaus Wirth |
| Home Page: | http://www.mkp.com/books_catalog/catalog.asp?ISBN=1-55860-723-4 |
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| Language type: | block-structured |
| Extensions: | .dta .obj .p .pas .pck .psm .tp .tph .tpl .tpp .tpu .tpw . |
| Tutorial: | http://www.taoyue.com/tutorials/pascal/ |
| Note: | Pascal has greatly influenced the design and evolution of many other languages, from Ada to Visual Basic. |
| Niklaus Wirth completed development of the original Pascal programming language in 1970. He based it upon the block structured style of the Algol programming language. There were two original goals for Pascal. According to the Pascal Standard (ISO 7185), these goals were to a) make available a language suitable for teaching programming as a systematic discipline based on fundamental concepts clearly and naturally reflected by the language, and b) to define a language whose implementations could be both reliable and efficient on then-available computers. |
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