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Pascal Maintenance

Pascal
KindProgramming language
Appeared1970
StatusMaintenance
CreatorNiklaus Wirth
FamilyPascal
Sourcewww.freepascal.org ↗

Wirth's disciplined teaching language — strong typing and clean structure became the grammar of an era's education; lives on in Free Pascal and Delphi.

Descended from ALGOL W
Created by Niklaus Wirth
Descendants Modula Modula-2 Delphi
Influenced COMAL Ada
Predecessors ALGOL W

Wirth's Pascal (1970) — ALGOL W refined for teaching — enforced strong typing, structured control, and readable syntax so strictly that a generation learned 'proper' programming on it.\n\nTurbo Pascal made it the language of early PCs; its descendants (Modula, Oberon, Ada's structure) carry the design forward.

Sources

  1. freepascal.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language)