Pascal

Pascal was designed by Niklaus Wirth to teach good structured-programming practices. Its clarity made it the educational language par excellence for decades, and with Turbo Pascal and Delphi (Object Pascal) it reached professional application development.

• Creado por Niklaus Wirth
• Año 1970
• Paradigma: Structured imperative · compiled
• Extensiones: .pas, .pp, .p

Para qué se usa

• Education
• Desktop apps (Delphi)
• Legacy software

A favor

• Very clear and readable
• Ideal for teaching
• Structured

En contra

• Dated
• Rarely used today
• Less flexible

Ecosistema

• Delphi
• Lazarus
• Free Pascal
• Turbo Pascal

Ejemplo

program Hola;
begin
  writeln('¡Hola, mundo!');
end.