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Pascal is a programming language. Its primary purpose when it was launched was to provide a vehicle for teaching programming concepts to beginners. With previous languages, teachers had to spend too much time teaching the language, leaving less time for teaching programming concepts.

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The traditional (Scheme, Pascal) way to structure code is this: declare outer function declare inner function body of inner function body of outer function The where clause in Haskell moves ...
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What i mean is something like: I have 2 array var and type, you can input the name of the variable on the var array and type of variable on the type array(type depend on language used), then i want to ...
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I'm making a Model View View-Model (MVVM) application using Delphi XE6. Since I'm using Pascal rather than C#, I need to manage destruction myself. I'm not sure how to handle form destruction. My ...
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Some programing languages, notably Pascal, have a type of numbers called "real". However, mathematically speaking, these types aren't real. For them to be "real", these types have to be able to ...
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I haven't worked with Pascal so far, and my problem is understanding the recursive aspects that prm assignment operators and how the final (correct) value is derived. Would someone please explain that ...
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In reading this blog post about Photoshop 1.0 I was surprised to learn that it was written in Pascal (Object Pascal to be exact). But you never hear about Pascal anymore. Why is that?
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My understanding is that in the 1980s, and perhaps in the 1990s too, Pascal and C were pretty much head-to-head as production languages. Is the ultimate demise of Pascal only due to Borland's neglect ...
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I was reading in the side bar of the Java language wiki page and it says it was influenced by Pascal and Delphi. this isn't the fact anymore, there are no references to Delphi on the entire referenced ...
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