Assertion: pascal | /r/HasProperty | developed as a general-purpose language
Facets:
value: originally
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Pascal was originally developed as a general-purpose language "suitable for expressing the fundamental constructs known at the time in a concise and logical way", and "its implementation was to be efficient and competitive with existing FORTRAN compilers" but without low-level programming facilities or access to hardware.