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. / /. /.Pascal is an and, designed by as a small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using. It is named in honor of the French mathematician, philosopher and physicist.Pascal was developed on the pattern of the language. Wirth was involved in the process to improve the language as part of the efforts and proposed a version known as. This was not accepted, and the ALGOL X process bogged down.
In 1968, Wirth decided to abandon the ALGOL X process and further improve ALGOL W, releasing this as Pascal in 1970.Pascal became very successful in the 1970s, notably on the burgeoning market. Were also available for many as the field emerged in the late 1970s. It was widely used as a teaching language in -level programming courses in the 1980s, and also used in production settings for writing commercial software during the same period. It was displaced by the during the late 1980s and early 1990s as -based systems became popular, and especially with the release of.A derivative known as designed for was developed in 1985; this was used by and in the late 1980s and later developed into on the platform. Extensions to the Pascal concepts led to the languages. Contents.History Earlier efforts Much of the history of design during the 1960s can be traced to the language.
ALGOL was developed during the 1950s with the explicit goal to be able to clearly describe algorithms. It included a number of features for that remain common in languages to this day.Shortly after its introduction, in 1962 Wirth began working on his dissertation with Helmut Weber on the. Euler was based on ALGOL's syntax and many concepts but was not a derivative.
Its primary goal was to add dynamic lists and types, allowing it to be used in roles similar to. The language was published in 1965.By this time, a number of problems in ALGOL had been identified, notably the lack of a standardized system. The group tasked with maintaining the language had begun the process to identify improvements, calling for submissions. Wirth and submitted a conservative set of modifications to add strings and clean up some of the syntax. These were considered too minor to be worth using as the new standard ALGOL, so Wirth wrote a compiler for the language, which became known as.The ALGOL X efforts would go on to choose a dramatically more complex language,. The complexity of this language led to considerable difficulty producing high-performance compilers, and it was not widely used in the industry.
This left an opening for newer languages.Pascal Pascal was influenced by the ALGOL W efforts, with the explicit goals of producing a language that would be efficient both in the compiler and at run-time, allow for the development of well-structured programs, and to be useful for teaching students. A generation of students used Pascal as an introductory language in undergraduate courses.One of the early successes for language was the introduction of, a version that ran on a custom that could be ported to different platforms. A key platform was the, where it saw widespread use. This led to the use of Pascal becoming the primary high-level language used for development in the, and later, the. Parts of the original were hand-translated into from the Pascal sources.The system by was written in, the original system, based on Pascal. Successful commercial applications like were written in Pascal, while applications likeand Macromedia Captivate were written in Delphi. Used Pascal as the systems programming language for its operating systems beginning in 1980.Variants of Pascal have also been used for everything from research projects to.
Newer Pascal compilers exist which are widely used. Object Pascal During work on the Lisa, began corresponding with Wirth on the idea of adding extensions to the language.
This led initially to, introduced in 1983. As the Lisa program faded and was replaced by the Mac, a further version known as was created. This was introduced on the Macintosh in 1985 as part of the, and became Apple's primary development language into the early 1990s.The Object Pascal extensions were added to with the release of version 5.5 in 1989. Over the years, Object Pascal became the basis of the system for, which is still used for developing Windows applications, and can cross-compile code to other systems. Is an open source, cross-platform alternative.Brief description Wirth's intention was to create an efficient language (regarding both compilation speed and generated code) based on, a recently popularized concept that he promoted in his book. Pascal has its roots in the language, but also introduced concepts and mechanisms which (on top of ALGOL's scalars and arrays) enabled programmers to define their own complex (structured) datatypes, and also made it easier to build dynamic and recursive data structures such as lists, trees and graphs. Important features included for this were records, enumerations, subranges, dynamically allocated variables with associated pointers, and sets.
To make this possible and meaningful, Pascal has a on all objects, which means that one type of data cannot be converted or interpreted as another without explicit conversions. Similar mechanisms are standard in many programming languages today.
Other languages that influenced Pascal's development were 67 and Wirth's own.Pascal, like many programming languages of today (but unlike most languages in the C family), allows definitions to any level of depth, and also allows most kinds of definitions and declarations inside (procedures and functions). This enables a very simple and coherent syntax where a complete program is syntactically nearly identical to a single procedure or function (except for the heading, which has one of these three keywords).Implementations Early Pascal compilers The first Pascal was designed in for the family. Reports that a first attempt to implement it in in 1969 was unsuccessful due to Fortran's inadequacy to express complex data structures. The second attempt was implemented in a C-like language (Scallop by Max Engeli) and then translated by hand (by R.
Schild) to Pascal itself for boot-strapping. It was operational by mid-1970. Many Pascal compilers since have been similarly, that is, the compiler is itself written in Pascal, and the compiler is usually capable of recompiling itself when new features are added to the language, or when the compiler is to be to a new environment. The compiler is one notable exception, being written in C.The first successful port of the CDC Pascal compiler to another mainframe was completed by Welsh and Quinn at the (QUB) in 1972. The target was the.
This compiler, in turn, was the parent of the Pascal compiler for the Information Computer Systems (ICS) minicomputer. The Multum port was developed – with a view to using Pascal as a systems programming language – by Findlay, Cupples, Cavouras and Davis, working at the Department of Computing Science in. It is thought that Multum Pascal, which was completed in the summer of 1973, may have been the first 16-bit implementation.A completely new compiler was completed by Welsh et al. At QUB in 1977.
It offered a source-language diagnostic feature (incorporating profiling, tracing and type-aware formatted postmortem dumps) that was implemented by Findlay and Watt at Glasgow University. This implementation was ported in 1980 to the series by a team based at and Glasgow University.
Type pNode = ^ Node; Node = record a: integer; b: char; c: pNode end; var NodePtr: pNode; IntPtr: ^ integer;Here the variable NodePtr is a pointer to the data type Node, a record. Pointers can be used before they are declared. This is a, an exception to the rule that things must be declared before they are used.To create a new record and assign the value 10 and character A to the fields a and b in the record, and to initialise the pointer c to the ('NIL' in Pascal), the statements would be. New ( NodePtr ). With NodePtr ^ do begin a:= 10; b:= 'A'; c:= NIL end.Inside of the scope of the with statement, a and b refer to the subfields of the record pointer NodePtr and not to the record Node or the pointer type pNode., and can be created by including a pointer type field (c) in the record.Unlike many languages that feature pointers, Pascal only allows pointers to reference dynamically created variables that are anonymous, and does not allow them to reference standard static or local variables. Pointers also must have an associated type, and a pointer to one type is not compatible with a pointer to another type (e.g. A pointer to a char is not compatible with a pointer to an integer).
This helps eliminate the type security issues inherent with other pointer implementations, particularly those used for. It also removes some risks caused by, but the ability to dynamically deallocate referenced space by using the dispose function (which has the same effect as the free library function found in ) means that the risk of dangling pointers has not been entirely eliminated as it has in languages such as Java and C#, which provide (but which do not entirely eliminate the related problem of ).Some of these restrictions can be lifted in newer dialects.Control structures Pascal is a language, meaning that the flow of control is structured into standard, usually without ' commands. This section needs expansion. You can help.
( February 2018)In 1990, an extended Pascal standard was created as ISO/IEC 10206, which is identical in technical content to IEEE/ANSI 770X3.160-1989As of 2019, Support of Extended Pascal in Compiler is planned. Variations Niklaus Wirth's Zurich version of Pascal was issued outside in two basic forms, the CDC 6000 compiler source, and a porting kit called Pascal-P system. The Pascal-P compiler left out several features of the full language that were not required to bootstrap the compiler.
For example, procedures and functions used as parameters, undiscriminated variant records, packing, dispose, interprocedural gotos and other features of the full compiler were omitted., under Professor, was based on the Pascal-P2 kit, and consequently shared several of the Pascal-P language restrictions. UCSD Pascal was later adopted as Apple Pascal, and continued through several versions there. Although UCSD Pascal actually expanded the subset Pascal in the Pascal-P kit by adding back standard Pascal constructs, it was still not a complete standard installation of Pascal.In the early 1990s, and developed Pascal-FC, an extension to Pl/0 (from the Niklaus' book 'Algorithms+Data Structures=Programs').
Several constructs were added to use Pascal-FC as a teaching tool for Concurrent Programming (such as semaphores, monitors, channels, remote-invocation and resources). To be able to demonstrate concurrency, the compiler output (a kind of ) could then be executed on a virtual machine.
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This virtual machine not only simulated a normal – fair – environment, but could also simulate extreme conditions (unfair mode).Borland-like Pascal compilers 's, written by, was written in assembly language independent of UCSD or the Zurich compilers. However, it adopted much of the same subset and extensions as the UCSD compiler.