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== History of PascalABC.NET ==

PascalABC.NET was developed by a group of enthusiasts at the Institute of Mathematics, Mechanics, and Computer Science in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Osipov |first=Alexander V. |title=PascalABC.NET: Vvedenie v sovremennoe programmirovanie [PascalABC.NET: Introduction to Modern Programming] |publisher=Southern Federal University |year=2019 |pages=28}}</ref> In 2003, a predecessor of the modern PascalABC.NET, called Pascal ABC, was implemented by associate professor Stanislav Mikhalkovich to be used for teaching schoolchildren instead of [[Turbo Pascal]], which became outdated and incompatible with modern operating systems but was still used for educational purposes. Pascal ABC was implemented as an [[Interpreter (computing)|interpreted programming language]], that led to a significant lack of performance. Four years after that it was completely rewritten by students Ivan Bondarev, Alexander Tkachuk, and Sergey Ivanov as a [[Compiled language|compiled programming language]] for the .NET platform. In 20102009, PascalABC.NET started to be actively used for teaching high school students. By 2015, the number of users of the language had increased significantly. It began to be actively used throughout Russia in schools and at programming contests, surpassing [[Free Pascal|FreePascal]]. Since then, the PascalABC.NET developers have set themselves the goal of actively incorporating modern features into the language. In the same year, PascalABC.NET became an open source project distributed under the [[GNU Lesser General Public License|LGPLv3 license]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-30 |title=Twisted Pair Podcast, #389 |url=https://tpair.org/podcast/tp-389/ |website=Twisted Pair Podcast |language=ru-RU}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Bondarev |first=Ivan V. |last2=Belyakova |first2=Yulia V. |last3=Mikhalkovich |first3=Stanislav S. |date=2013-04-24 |title=PascalABC.NET programming system: 10 years of development |url=https://pascalabc.net/downloads/Presentations/10letPABC.pdf |access-date=2023-04-09 |website=PascalABC.NET}}</ref>

In 2017<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-03-29 |title=Analysis of PascalABC.NET using SonarQube plugins: SonarC# and PVS-Studio |url=https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/posts/csharp/0492/ |website=PVS-Studio |lang=en}}</ref> and 2022,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-02-11 |title=Re-checking PascalABC.NET |url=https://medium.com/pvs-studio/re-checking-pascalabc-net-f8bfc94aba3c |website=Medium |lang=en}}</ref> independent audit of [https://github.com/pascalabcnet/pascalabcnet PascalABC.NET public repository] was conducted. Based on the results of the static check, potentially dangerous code fragments were listed that require additional analysis by developers. It was also noted that the overall quality of the code could be improved. To do this, code duplication and redundant checks should be eliminated, and refactoring should be performed more carefully.