Pascal

Pascal is an imperative and procedural programming language, designed by Niklaus Wirth as a small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. It is named after French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1970
Designed by: Niklaus Wirth
Developed by: Niklaus Wirth
Named after: Blaise Pascal
Aliases: Pascal-XSC
File extensions: p, pas, pp

Wikidata: Q81571

Influenced: AdaAldorA♯C/ALCharmComponent PascalDracoEasyLanguageEmeraldGoHyperTalkJoyceKarelLunaModulaModula-2Object PascalOdinParaSailPascal ScriptPascalABC.NETRobicSeed7SuperPascalTurbo PascalTuringWolfram Language

Influenced by: ALGOLALGOL WSimula

Programming paradigms: imperative programmingstructured programming

Language types: imperative programming languageinterpreted language

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Hello World in Pascal

program HelloWorld(output);
begin
        writeln('Hello World');
end.

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Latest data update: 2025-09-02