History of Pascal programming language

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Changed: 3c3

Early approaches (most notably the UCSD system) translated Pascal code into a machine-independent P-code? representation. This intermediate code was then interpreted by a program specific to each architecture. As a consequence, only the small interpreter part had to be ported over to many architectures.

Early approaches (most notably the UCSD system) translated Pascal code into a machine-independent P-code representation. This intermediate code was then interpreted by a program specific to each architecture. As a consequence, only the small interpreter part had to be ported over to many architectures.

Added: 7a8,11

With Turbo Pacal version 5 Borland added Object Orientation to Pascal forming the Object Pascal dialect. Their main language from 1996 on, Delphi, is in turn based on this.

Wirth also developed Modula-2?, a language similar to Pascal which also supports object oriented programming.

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