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| − | 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]]). | + | '''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]]). |
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| + | 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. | ||
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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
The old Turbo Pascal 5.5 is now freely available [http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20803 here]. | The old Turbo Pascal 5.5 is now freely available [http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20803 here]. | ||
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Revision as of 03:26, 20 October 2018
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
Notes
The old Turbo Pascal 5.5 is now freely available here.
