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Pascal (Language): Languages
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Computer programming language named for Blaise Pascal and based partly on ALGOL. It was developed by Niklaus Wirth of Zurich's Federal Institute of Technology in the late 1960s as an educational tool for systematic teaching of programming, with fast, reliable compilers. It was made available to the public in 1974 and was used by many universities for the next 15 years. Pascal strongly influenced languages developed later, such as Ada. Complex data structures and algorithms can be described concisely by Pascal, and its programs are easy to read and debug.
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Niklaus Wirth's Zurich version of Pascal was issued outside of ETH in two basic forms, the CDC 6000 compiler source, and a porting kit called Pascal-P system. The Pascal-P compiler left out several features of the full language. For example, procedures and functions used as parameters, undiscriminated variant records, packing, dispose, interprocedural gotos and other features of the full compiler were omitted.
ICU4PAS is an Object Pascal, Direct Class Wrapper for the widely used set of C/C++ International Components for Unicode (ICU) libraries. Source code distribution comes with all samples ported natively to the Object Pascal language, including the Unicode Layout demo.
This tutorial does not go into great detail on the Pascal language, but does cover the basics of scope and procedure calls, syntax, and BGI graphics. It will be enough to get you programming in Pascal on your own.
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