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The Origins and Features of Pascal

Pascal was designed by Swiss computer scientist Nikiaus Wirth in 1968. and then revised in 1972.
In 1984 Wirth received the prestigious Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science, in part for his work on Pascal.
Wirth created Pascal to avoid the problems of the programming languages in widespread use in the late 1960s. It includes their better features and more, in a streamlined format that is easy to use. He named the language after the famous French mathematician Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), who is credited with designing an early mechanical calculating machine, a forerunner of the modern computer.
Originally intended as a teaching tool for programming con-cepts, Pascal is widely used today in business, industry, and per-sonal computing. The language is simple to learn, yet embodies a wide range of programming concepts. Pascal encourages programmers to write programs that are clear and hat can be understood easily by other programmers.
Once you've learned Pascal, you will find it easy to learn FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, Modula-2, Ada, and other programming languages. Modula-2 and Ada are relatively new languages based directly on Pascal. In fact Wirth designed Modula-2 as a successor to Pascal. Both Modula-2 and Ada incorporate sophisticated features that go well beyond the scope of an introductory programming course.