What is Pascal?
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An underrated high-level programming language developed in the 1970s by Niklaus Wirth. Pascal was originally intended to teach good programming practices, but in the early 1980s, Borland took the language and made it more powerful and widespread by introducing Turbo Pascal. Today, Pascal is still used in the form of
Contrary to popular belief, Pascal, today, is just as powerful as C, C++, or Java.
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Weapon used to piss on hobos
verb- To Pascal someone
"Dude, I saw a homeless guy asking me money today, I Pascaled him"
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A useless programming language one is forced to lean in high school, instead of a highly useful and relevant language like C, C++, Java, etc.
Mr. Pedersons AP Pascal class in 10th grade was the turning point - I could have been a successful high paid software engineer, but after having my soul crushed by that archaic monstrosity that I knew I would never use in any professional context, I ended up as a janitor cleaning toilets. I drink myself to sleep every night, sad and lonely in my van down by the river thinking of what could have been if they had taught me C instead.
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An outdated programming language which uses Begin and End instead of { and } for determining the scope of code structures.
Here is a simple program in pascal:
Program PascalSucks
Begin
Writeln("Pascal Sucks");
End.
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A rather useless programming language, initialy created to teach new programmers how to do it properly, after the wave of sloppy programmers in the 60s. Improvements have meant that it has been used for real programming (mainly by apple). Good to get you into good habits, but still useless in the end.
person 1:i learnt programming in C++ in no time at all thanks to all the years i spent learning Pascal
Person 2:yeah...but if you just learnt C++ in the first place, you wouldnt have had to bother.
Person 1:&*%^$% you
Blaize Pascal:you think youve got it bad? they named the bloody thing after me when i was already dead!
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The act of lying compulsively.
-Hey, Jim just told that his dad invented the Ringolos...
-Oh my God! He must have pulled the Pascal!
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