He designed it as a small and efficient language aimed at encouraging good programming practices. Pascal made its initial appearance in 1970, gaining prominence on IBM PC systems a couple of ...

Despite languages like Pascal having only a small presence in today’s world of computer science, it’s hard to underestimate the impact that it, as well as Modula-2 and other Niklaus Wirth ...

The IDE is developed independently from the underlying Pascal language that it's written in, so this doesn't mean a whole new version of FreePascal: Lazarus 4 was built with FreePascal 3.2.2 which ...

Pascal is not one of the biggest programming languages these days; it’s fallen into the background as the world moved on to newfangled things like C#, Python and Java. However, the language h… ...

Turbo Pascal included a compiler and an IDE for the Pascal programming language running on CP/M, CP/M-86 and DOS, developed by Borland under co-founder and CEO Philippe Kahn’s leadership.

“We needed a language that could be ‘taught’ to virtually all students (and faculty) without their having to take a course.” History of C and The Rise of Pascal, C++ and More. After BASIC, in the ...

Language wars inevitably end up with people saying “Choose the right tool for the job.” Of course, that never seems to satisfy those diehards who think their tool is the right tool for every job.