PASCAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

Pascal is a programming language that was first made ​​by Professor Niklaus Wirth, a member of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) in 1971. By taking the name of the French mathematician, Blaise Pascal, who first created the totalizer, Professor Niklaus Wirth made ​​the language of Pascal as a tool for teaching computer programming concepts to students. In addition, Professor Niklaus Wirth Pascal also made ​​to complement the shortcomings of existing programming languages ​​at the time.

EXCESS PASCAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

•      Standard data types, standard data types that are already available in most programming languages​​. Pascal has a standard data types: boolean, integer, real, char, string,

•      User defined Data Types, programmers can create other data types derived from standard data types.

•      Strongly-typed, the programmer must specify the data type of a variable, and variables can not be used to store data types other than the specified format.

•      Structured, has a syntax that allows the writing of programs broken down into smaller functions (procedures and functions) that can be used repeatedly.

•      Simple and expressive, has a simple structure and very close to human language (English) so it is easy to learn and understand.

PASCAL language is also the language used as the standard programming language for the national team's Olympic Computer Indonesia (TOKI). In addition, the PASCAL language still used in the IOI (International Olympiad in Informatics).