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Pascal is a programming language designed in 1968-1969 by Niklaus Wirth to encourage structured programming and data structuring. It was intended to be a small and efficient language for teaching programming. Variants include Object Pascal for object-oriented programming. Pascal was widely used for teaching and in various projects including the Apple Lisa operating system and early Macintosh operating system. It remains in use today for applications development and in cross-platform compilers.

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Pascal Is An Influential

Pascal is a programming language designed in 1968-1969 by Niklaus Wirth to encourage structured programming and data structuring. It was intended to be a small and efficient language for teaching programming. Variants include Object Pascal for object-oriented programming. Pascal was widely used for teaching and in various projects including the Apple Lisa operating system and early Macintosh operating system. It remains in use today for applications development and in cross-platform compilers.

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Pascal

Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in


19681969 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.



Pascal, named in honor of the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal, was
developed by Niklaus Wirth.
Before his work on Pascal, Wirth had developed Euler and ALGOL W and later went on to develop
the Pascal-like languages Modula-2 andOberon.
Initially, Pascal was largely, but not exclusively, intended to teach students structured
programming.
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A generation of students used Pascal as an introductory language in undergraduate
courses. Variants of Pascal have also frequently been used for everything from research projects
to PC games and embedded systems. Newer Pascal compilers exist which are widely used.
[5]

Pascal was the primary high-level language used for development in the Apple Lisa, and in the early
years of the Macintosh. Parts of the original Macintosh operating system were hand-translated
into Motorola 68000 assembly language from the Pascal sources.
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The
populartypesetting system TeX by Donald E. Knuth was written in WEB, the original literate
programming system, based on DEC PDP-10 Pascal, while applications like Total
Commander, Skype and Macromedia Captivate were written in Delphi (Object Pascal).
Object Pascal (Embarcadero Delphi) is still used for developing Windows applications but also has
the ability to cross compile the same code to Mac and iOS. Another cross-platform version
called Free Pascal, with the Lazarus IDE, is popular with Linux users since it also promiseswrite
once, compile anywhere, development. CodeTyphon is a variant of Lazarus with more preinstalled
packages and cross compilers.

Source: wikipedia

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