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| + | * [https://community.embarcadero.com/article/technical-articles/162-programming/7127-antique-software-turbo-pascal-v55 Antique Software: Turbo Pascal Version 5.5] - The old Turbo Pascal 5.5 | ||
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* [https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/notfavorite.html Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language] - some pithy comments from Brian Kernighan | * [https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/notfavorite.html Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language] - some pithy comments from Brian Kernighan | ||
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Revision as of 13:25, 7 May 2023
Pascal was a strong-typed, structured language which had some popularity in the 1980s, although it lives on in various forms today (e.g. Delphi).
The language was written by Niklaus Wirth in 1968-1969. It was originally designed for teaching purposes and was lacking in some areas, it was for example not possible to write a function which could receive variable length arrays or -strings as parameters. Thus a plethora of variant implementations of Pascal followed which all improved on the original Wirth design, however not necessarily in a compatible way.
Hello world
program hello;
begin
writeln('hello world');
end.
Compilers
- Turbo Pascal
External links
- Antique Software: Turbo Pascal Version 5.5 - The old Turbo Pascal 5.5
- Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language - some pithy comments from Brian Kernighan
