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Pascal was a | '''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 == | == Hello world == | ||
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begin | begin | ||
writeln('hello world'); | writeln('hello world'); | ||
end. | |||
</pre> | </pre> | ||
== Compilers == | == Compilers == | ||
*Turbo Pascal | * Turbo Pascal | ||
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== | ==External links== | ||
* [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://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/956641.956642 Experience with Pascal Compilers on Mini-computers] | |||
* [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 | |||
** [https://9to5tutorial.com/try-installing-turbo-pascal-5-5-on-windows-10-64bit-11 Try installing Turbo Pascal 5.5 on Windows 10 (64bit) / 11] | |||
* [https://www.slac.stanford.edu/vault/collvault/greylit/cgtm/CGTM196.pdf Stanford Pascal Compiler] | |||
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Latest revision as of 14:29, 23 July 2024
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
- Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language - some pithy comments from Brian Kernighan
- Experience with Pascal Compilers on Mini-computers
- Antique Software: Turbo Pascal Version 5.5 - The old Turbo Pascal 5.5
- Stanford Pascal Compiler
