Programming languages
Pascal
Pascal is a procedural programming language, designed as a small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. It is named in honor of the French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Blaise Pascal.
- Created by
- Niklaus Wirth
- First appeared
- 1970
- Official resource
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Your first program
Hello, World!
program HelloWorld;
begin
writeln('Hello, World!');
end.Keep learning
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