Pascal

Pascal is a programming language designed by around 1970. Named after the French mathematician (1623-1662), the language was designed for simplicity and for teaching programming, in reaction to the complexity of . It emphasizes constructs, s and . Innovations included s, , sets, s, and the . Pascal has been extremely influential in programming language design and has a great number of variants and descendants.. 1996-06-12.
==History==
 was a version of the language that was developed in 1977 by Ken Bowles at the . Apple Computer negotiated a license to create Apple Pascal from the UCSD version for use on its Apple II and III computers. It would later also be used in early Lisa and Macintosh development. In 1979, project manager Jef Raskin initiated work on a Pascal syntax poster as a reference guide for programmers. The project was taken over by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who had commercial artist Tom Kamifuji design the poster.The History of Apple’s Pascal “Syntax” Poster, 1979-80 by Lucas Wagner and Jef Raskin, VintageComputer.ca. 2018-09-18.
Pascal has since been almost entirely displaced (by C) from the niches it had acquired in serious applications and systems programming, but retains some popularity as a hobbyist language in the MS-DOS and Classic Mac OS worlds.
==References==
==Further reading==
*The Programming Language Pascal, N. Wirth, Acta Informatica. 1973.
*PASCAL User Manual and Report, K. Jensen & N. Wirth, Springer. 1975.
*Specification for Computer Programming Language PASCAL, International Organization for Standardization. 1981.
==External links==
* at Wikipedia
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