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A programming language called Pascal is described which was developed on the basis ofAlgol 60. Compared toAlgol 60, its range of applicability is considerably increased due to a variety of data structuring facilities. In view of its intended usage both as a convenient basis to teach programming and as an efficient tool to write large programs, emphasis was placed on keeping the number of fundamental concepts reasonably small, on a simple and systematic language structure, and on efficient implementability. A one-pass compiler has been constructed for the CDC 6000 computer family; it is expressed entirely in terms of Pascal itself.
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Fachgruppe Computer-Wissenschaften, Eidg. Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Schweiz.
The author gratefully acknowledges his indeptedness to C. A. R. Hoare for his many valuable suggestions concerning overall design strategy as well as details, and for his critical scrutiny of this paper.
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Wirth, N. The programming language pascal. Acta Informatica 1, 35–63 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00264291
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00264291