Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural programming
language, designed in 1969 and published in 1970 by Niklaus
Wirth as a small and efficient language. It was largely (but not
exclusively) intended to teach students structured programming
and data structuring. Pascal is a descendant of algol, but it
was implemented on a wide range of architectures, from PDP-11s,
IBM PCs, to CDC Cyber and IBM System 370 mainframes. Pascal
probably reached critical mass around the time Borland released
Turbo Pascal in 1983. Pascal is a purely procedural language and
includes control statements with reserved words such as for, and
so on. However, Pascal also has many data structuring facilities
and other abstractions not included in ALGOL 60 like type
definitions, records, pointers, enumerations, and sets. - The
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