Pascal
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- Creator
- Niklaus Wirth
- Released
- Type
- Programming language
Niklaus Wirth's 1970 teaching language that turned out to be surprisingly commercial by way of Turbo Pascal.
Designed to teach structured programming: strict typing, clear block structure, begin/end instead of braces. Wirth wanted a language compilable in a single pass, which explains some of its rigidity.
Borland's Turbo Pascal (1983) cost $49 when rival compilers cost thousands, and compiled almost instantly. Delphi carried the lineage into Windows development. Wirth moved on to Modula-2 and Oberon. Free implementations: Free Pascal and Lazarus.