the.com/pascal programming language
the language that taught a generation discipline before it taught them C's chaos.
means a structured programming language designed to enforce good habits by making sloppy code hard to write.
from created in 1970 by niklaus wirth at eth zurich, named after blaise pascal, built explicitly as a teaching tool to make structured programming and disciplined syntax unavoidable.
strict typingforces you to declare everything before using it
begin endreplaced curly braces with actual english words
turbo pascal1983 borland version compiled absurdly fast for its era
skyfall appearly mac os apps were partly written in object pascal
for instance
turbo pascal — borland, 1983, made pc programming affordable and instant
delphi — object pascal descendant still used for windows apps today
mac os classic — early apple system software leaned on pascal calling conventions
ap computer science — college board taught pascal as the standard exam language until 1999