Pascal is a programming language designed by the Swiss computer scientist Niklaus Wirth at ETH Zurich in the late 1960s, with the first working compiler appearing in 1970. It was named after the seventeenth-century French mathematician Blaise Pascal. Wirth wanted a clean, structured language suited to teaching good programming practice, and Pascal emphasised clear control structures, strong typing and data structures such as records and sets. It became the standard teaching language at universities through the 1970s and 1980s, helped by portable implementations such as UCSD Pascal. Borland's inexpensive Turbo Pascal, released in 1983, brought it to a large audience of personal computer users, and its descendant Delphi remained in use for decades.
Before and after
- 1970Founding of Serpentine Galleries
- c. 1970sRise of postmodern architecture
- c. 1970sRise of rapping
- 1970Origins of New York City Marathon
- 1970Creation of Pascal
- 1970Vera Rubin's galaxy rotation curves reveal dark matter
- 7 January 1970Birth of Andy Burnham
- 2 February 1970Death of Bertrand Russell
- 4 February 1970Origins of Pripyat
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