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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 | ||
* [https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/956641.956642 Experience with Pascal Compilers on Mini-computers] | * [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://web.archive.org/web/20230315085300/http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20803 Antique Software: Turbo Pascal v5.5] | ||
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20230312060225/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 article | |||
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* [https://www.slac.stanford.edu/vault/collvault/greylit/cgtm/CGTM196.pdf Stanford Pascal Compiler] | * [https://www.slac.stanford.edu/vault/collvault/greylit/cgtm/CGTM196.pdf Stanford Pascal Compiler] | ||
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Latest revision as of 12:15, 17 October 2026
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 v5.5
- Antique Software: Turbo Pascal Version 5.5 - The old Turbo Pascal 5.5 article
- Stanford Pascal Compiler
