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

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)

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

From: Sumilion
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.

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

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.

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

From: 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.

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

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 ?

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.

From: Sumilion
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:

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

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

From: 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)

The first computer language was Basic.