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The '''Pascal''' [[programming language]] was developed by [[Niklaus Wirth]] as a tool for [[structured programming]] which would at the same time be simple to process for a [[compiler]]. Wirth named the language in honor of [[Blaise Pascal]]. He based the language on the [[Algol programming language]]. Wirth also developed [[Modula programming language|Modula-2]], a language similar to Pascal which also supports object oriented programming.

'''Implementations'''

Early approaches (most notably the [[UCSD]] system) translated Pascal code into a machine-independent [[P-code machine|P-code]] representation. This intermediate code was then interpreted by a program specific to each architecture. As a consequence, only the small interpreter part had to be ported over to many architectures.

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With ''Turbo Pacal'' version 5 Borland added [[Object Oriented Programming|Object Orientation]] to Pascal forming the ''Object Pascal'' dialect. Their main language from [[1996]] on, [[Delphi programming language|Delphi]], is in turn based on this.

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