High-level programming language developed by Niklaus Wirth in 1971 that is named after the Mathematician Blaise Pascal. Below is an example of a Pascal program that prints Hello World!.

program Hello; begin Write(‘Hello world’); end.

After the above is entered into a file, save the file as hello.pas and compile the program before it can run.

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  • Programming language history.
  • FreePascal is a great, free Pascal compiler. It can be downloaded from the FreePascal website.