Pascal

(Programming Language)
What does Pascal mean?
Pascal is a procedural programming
language that supports structured
programming and data structures to
encourage good programming practices.

While Pascal is a reliable and

efficient programming language, it is
mainly used to teach programming
techniques. In fact, it is the first
language that many programmers learn.
There are commercial versions of Pascal
that are used, but in general, most
developers favor Java, C#, C, C++, etc.
designed in 1968 and
published in 1970 by
Niklaus Wirth

and named in honour of the

French mathematician and
philosopher Blaise Pascal
Techopedia explains Pascal

Pascal uses control structures with reserved words

which include if, then, else, while, etc. It also
supports data structures and abstractions like
records, pointers, type definitions, sets and
enumeration. Similar to any other object-oriented
programming language, Pascal also has special
program structures and control statements. They
start with the keyword "program" followed by the
main block holding the begin and end statements.
This program was tested and executed using the
Turbo Pascal 7.0 complier from Borland

program HelloWorld;

uses crt;

(* Here the main program block starts *)

begin
writeln('Hello, World!');

readkey;
end.