pascal?

[omgh4x0rz]

Anyone here know pascal? What's it's use, and is there anything I could do with pascal that c++ can't?

[JAD]

I believe it was the first computer language ever. At least a very very old one, and one of the first from my knowledge. You know some basic pascal now I'm pretty sure (At least because your a SRL member you should :p)

[Sumilion]

Who is this pascal guy i keep hearing about ???

[omgh4x0rz]

Who is this pascal guy i keep hearing about ???
I know, i rlly w4nt to m33t pascal b3c4use he soudz so 1337!

@JAD
yea, I know what pascal is, but I'm just wondering if anyone here uses it or if I should bother learning it in contexts other than for scar.

btw, FORTRAN is usually considered the first programming language (about 15 years before pascal I think) Then came cobal, lisp and even basic before pascal.

[Sumilion]

Pascal is actually a guy you know, probably dead, but a guy. The langauge was named after him (Blaise Pascal). Developed in 1970 ^^

[omgh4x0rz]

I thought blaise pascal was the guy who invented pascal's triangle in like the 17th century. I doubt he's the one who developed the pascal language lol.

[WhoCares357]

I scripted Pascal for a while. It's much easier than C++, but uses pretty much the same concepts.

[Sumilion]

I thought blaise pascal was the guy who invented pascal's triangle in like the 17th century. I doubt he's the one who developed the pascal language lol.

its the same guy, the language Pascal is just named after him, not made by him.

[smills.smx]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_programming_language
Wikipedia is your friend.

Taken from wikipedia :
program HelloWorld(output);
begin
writeln('Hello, World!')
end.

program mine(output);
var i : integer;

procedure print(var j: integer);

function next(k: integer): integer;
begin
next := k + 1
end;

begin
writeln('The total is: ', j);
j := next(j)
end;

begin
i := 1;
while i <= 10 do print(i)
end.

Remind you of anything ?

[omgh4x0rz]

yea, no shit.

If you read my question (it shouldn't have been too hard, it was only two sentences) you would notice that Wiki doesn't answer it.


its the same guy, the language Pascal is just named after him, not made by him.

oh gotcha. I misunderstood what you were saying. I thought you were trying to tell my it was developed by Blaise Pascal in 1970. lol :rolleyes:

[R0b0t1]

The first ever language was ShortCode, and im not ssure what pascal is good for.

[GoF]

If u know SCAR i suggest trying delphi.. Its quite easy and i guess its pascal too (or atleast pascal based).

[PwNZoRNooB]

I believe it was the first computer language ever. At least a very very old one, and one of the first from my knowledge. You know some basic pascal now I'm pretty sure (At least because your a SRL member you should :p)

The first computer language was Basic.