[[File:Niklaus Wirth.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Prof. Niklaus Wirth.]]
'''Pascal''' is a [[computer]] [[programming]] [[language]] created by Prof. Niklaus Wirth, and published in 1970. It became widely popular with the release of Borland's [[Turbo Pascal]], an integrated editor and compiler for Pascal on [[MSDOSMS DOS]], in 1981. Pascal was eventually made an ISO standard (ISO 7185).
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