Pascal programming language

Pascal is an imperative computer programming language, developed in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a language particularly suitable for structured programming.

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Imperative - Computer - Programming language - 1970 - Niklaus Wirth - Structured programming

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Pascal is based on the Algol programming language and named in honor of mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal. Wirth also developed Modula-2 and Oberon, languages similar to Pascal. Oberon also supports object-oriented programming.

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Algol - Blaise Pascal - Modula-2 - Oberon - Object-oriented programming

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Initially, Pascal was a language intended to teach students structured programming, and generations of students have "cut their teeth" on Pascal as an introductory language in undergraduate courses. Variants of Pascal are still widely used today, both in education and software development.

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Much of the original Macintosh operating system was written in Pascal. The popular typesetting system TeX is written in a language named WEB for which Donald Knuth borrowed heavily from Pascal.

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Macintosh - Typesetting - TeX - WEB - Donald Knuth

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