PASCAL

• PASCAL was originally developed in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth .
• PASCAL gives the programmer the ability to define custom data types. PASCAL was intended as a teaching language and was widely adopted. Soon, Turbo PASCAL became the standard for programming on the PC.
• One of the criticisms of the original version of Pascal was its lack of separate compilation for modules, so a new programming language, Modula-2, was created. PASCAL was based off of ALGOL
• Interesting Fact: Pascal was the primary high-level language used for development in the Apple Lisa, and was used to program in the early years of the Macintosh .