question: Pascal is an imperative and procedural programming language, which Niklaus Wirth designed in 196869 and published in 1970, as a small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.

A derivative known as Object Pascal designed for object-oriented programming was developed in 1985, later developed into Delphi.

Pascal, named in honor of the French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal, was developed by Niklaus Wirth.

Before his work on Pascal, Wirth had developed Euler and ALGOL W and later went on to develop the Pascal-like languages Modula-2 and Oberon.

Initially, Pascal was largely, but not exclusively, intended to teach students structured programming. A generation of students used Pascal as an introductory language in undergraduate courses. Variants of Pascal have also frequently been used for everything from research projects to PC games and embedded systems. Newer Pascal compilers exist which are widely used.

Pascal was the primary high-level language used for development in the Apple Lisa, and in the early years of the Macintosh. Parts of the original Macintosh operating system were hand-translated into Motorola 68000 assembly language from the Pascal sources. The typesetting system TeX by Donald E. Knuth was written in WEB, the original literate programming system, based on DEC PDP-10 Pascal, while applications like Total Commander, Skype and Macromedia Captivate were written in Delphi (Object Pascal). Apollo Computer used Pascal as the systems programming language for its operating systems beginning in 1980.
1. What was Pascal named in honor of?
2. Who was he?
3. What else?
4. Who developed it?
5. What did he do before this work?
6. What else?
7. What is Pascal?
8. What year was it designed?
9. When was it published?
10. What is it used for?
11. Using what/
12. What was it initially designed for?
13. Has it ever been used for games?
14. What was it used to develop?
15. What was translated from the Pascal sources?
16. What did Donald Knuth create?
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answer: 1. Blaise Pascal
2. mathematician
3. philosopher
4. Niklaus Wirth
5. had developed Euler
6. ALGOL W
7. programming language
8. 196869
9. 1970
10. good programming practices
11. structured programming and data structuring
12. teach structured programming
13. Yes
14. Apple Lisa
15. Parts of the original Macintosh operating system
16. TeX

question: (CNN) -- Dan Wheldon brought a bit of England with him when he began driving extremely fast cars in the United States.

"When I first started racing, a lot of the guys said that I raced with a lot of heart, occasionally not my head, but always with a lot of heart, like the way that Richard the Lionheart fought in battle," Wheldon wrote on a sponsor's blog in 2010.

Wheldon placed a small mural of the 12th-century warrior king on his helmet in 1995, before he competed in America and eventually released "Lionheart," a biographical photo book.

Wheldon's fellow IndyCar drivers remembered the heart, competitiveness and growing maturity of the two-time Indianapolis 500 winner, who died in a horrific multi-car wreck at a Las Vegas event on Sunday at age 33.

"Dan came over years ago as a young, brash kid from England," former IndyCar driver Lyn St. James said Monday, "and we watched him mature into being this absolute, consummate professional ... He touched so many people."

A shaken Dario Franchitti, speaking after the canceled Las Vegas Indy 300, said "one minute you're joking around ... the next, Dan's gone."

"We can put so much pressure on ourselves to win races and championships and it's what we love to do," said Franchitti, who knew Wheldon since he was a child. "And it's what we live for. And then on days like today, it doesn't really matter. I lost, we lost ... a good friend."

Franchitti recalled Wheldon's early IndyCar years.
1. Who is this article about?
2. Where is he from?
3. Where is he located now?
4. What did he always race with?
5. Who was he referred to as?
6. Where did he write that on?
7. When was that written?
8. What did he do to commemorate this?
9. Did he do anything else in 1995?
10. What is that?
11. Did he get first at the Indianapolis 500?
12. What happened to him?
13. How old was he?
14. Who was broken up about the accident and spoke on his behalf?
15. Who spoke at the race?
16. Was he upset over the death?
17. Does he remember the "good ol days"?
18. Were they friends?
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answer: 1. Dan Wheldon
2. England
3. United States
4. a lot of heart
5. Richard the Lionheart
6. a sponsor's blog
7. 2010
8. placed a small mural of the 12th-century warrior king on his helmet
9. released "Lionheart
10. a biographical photo book.
11. yes two-time Indianapolis 500 winner
12. he died in a horrific multi-car wreck
13. 33
14. brash kid
15. Dario Franchitt
16. Yes he was quoted saying lost, we lost ... a good friend
17. yes Franchitti recalled Wheldon's early IndyCar years.
18. Yes he knew Wheldon since he was a child

question: Something caught my eyes when I was walking down the street. Two silver coins were shining in a melting snow bank, so I dug through the snow looking for more. Of course, I just ended up with really cold hands. I slipped the two coins into my pocket and went home, colder but richer. I began to think about how to spend the money... Two days later, Mary and her little sister were searching the snow banks. "Finders are keepers" was my first thought. I didn't want to hand them out even though Susy was already crying. " I dropped them right here," she said between tears. Her hands were cold and red for digging in the snow. Maybe they slid down the street with the melting snow. Let's dig over here." Mary's voice sounded confident. "They'll never know" was my second thought, and I walked past them. " Phil, have you seen two sliver coins?" asked Mary. Susy looked up from digging. _ . "Tell a lie" was my third thought. "As a matter of fact," I hesitated ,"I dug two coins out of that snow bank just a few days ago. I wondered who might have lost them." Susy hugged me with a big smile, "Oh, thank you, thank you."
1. What was I looking for?
2. Where?
3. Who lost them?
4. Did I find more than two coins?
5. Did I want to keep them at first?
6. How did Susy feel?
7. Was she in tears?
8. Did they think they would find the coins?
9. Where?
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answer:
1. Two silver coins
2. in a melting snow bank
3. Mary and her little sister
4. No
5. Yes
6. Sad
7. Yes
8. Yes
9. Where she dropped them