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Pascal (programming language) (view source)
Revision as of 14:02, February 18, 2008
, 14:02, February 18, 2008Description section
'''Pascal''' is a [[computer]] [[programming]] [[language]] created by Prof. Nicholas Wirth in 1970. It became widely popular with the release of Borland's Turbo Pascal, an integrated editor and compiler for Pascal on [[MSDOS]], in 1981. Pascal was eventually made an ISO standard (ISO 7185).
'''Pascal''' is a [[computer]] [[programming]] [[language]] created by Prof. Nicholas Wirth in 1970. It became widely popular with the release of Borland's Turbo Pascal, an integrated editor and compiler for Pascal on [[MSDOS]], in 1981. Pascal was eventually made an ISO standard (ISO 7185).
== Description ==
Pascal uses a series of ''statements'', which, like [[BASIC]], are English-like words.
Statements can wrap onto multiple lines, and each statement is terminated by a semi-colon or the reserved word '''end'''.
Statements may be simple or compound.
A simple assignment statement is:
{{tt|1=a:=3;}}
A loop statement that appends characters to a string might look like the following:
{{tt|1=for i:=1 to 6 do s:=s+' more';}}
The {{tt|for}} statement executes the assignment statement each time through the loop.
If the loop is to execute more than one statement, they are incorporated into a compound statement, bracketed by {{tt|begin}} and {{tt|end}} reserved words:
<code>
for i:=1 to 6 do
begin
s:=s+' more';
count:=count+1;
y:=y-3;
end;
</code>
==Technical Summary==
==Technical Summary==