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Pascal became very successful in the 1970s, notably on the burgeoning [[minicomputer]] market. [[Compiler]]s were also available for many [[microcomputer]]s as the field emerged in the late 1970s. It was widely used as a teaching language in [[university]]-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 [[C (programming language)|C programming language]] during the late 1980s and early 1990s as [[UNIX]]-based systems became popular, and especially with the release of [[C++]].

A derivative named [[Object Pascal]] designed for [[object-oriented programming]] was developed in 1985. This was used by [[Apple Computer]] (for the Lisa and MacIntoshMacintosh machines) and [[Borland]] in the late 1980s and later developed into [[Delphi (software)|Delphi]] on the [[Microsoft Windows]] platform. Extensions to the Pascal concepts led to the languages [[Modula-2]] and [[Oberon (programming language)|Oberon]].

==History==