History of the programming language: when was it developed, who

developed it, was it developed for a particular purpose, is it still in use?

Summarize this information in your own words.

Pascal was developed in 19681969 and published in 1970. Niklaus Wirth was
the one who developed it. Pascal was developed with intent to provide features
that were lacking in other languages such as efficiency in implementation and
running, good structure and organization, and an easy way to teach people
programming.

Programming generation, based on the information in your text or your

research

In the textbook Pascal is referred as a third-generation programming language.

Programming paradigm(s), based on the information in your text or your

research

The Hello World example for this programming language

programHelloWorld;

Any program is Pascal starts by the reserved word 'Program'.

begin

The main program always starts with the reserved word 'Begin'
writeln('HelloWorld');

writeln method is used to display any message on the screen and proceed to
the following line when writing a statement.
end.

The end keyword closes a Block of instructions started with the begin or case
keyword and also ends the declaration of fields of a record

References

Parsons, June Jamrich., and Dan Oja. Computer Concepts 2014:

Comprehensive. Boston: Course Technology/Cengage Learning, 2014. Print.
http://groups.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/pascal/pascal.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language)
http://pascal-programming.info/lesson1.php