Pascal in 100 Seconds

Learn the basics of the Pascal in this quick tutorial. Find out why Turbo Pascal was one of the world's most popular programming languages. In memory of Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth, who passed away on Jan 1st, 2024

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[sonmangaking]

Rest in piece legend, programming languages creators need be remembered and known. Thanks Fireship

[wlockuz]

I love how its syntax feels oddly "modern"

[ThePouetman]

The syntax doesn't look half bad actually, compared to some other old languages

[samplefx]

Fun fact: FL Studio, a very popular digital audio workstation is written in delphi, a modern, object oriented version of pascal. (Also applies to early versions of skype!)

[flippert]

"You can call me by name which is 'Veert' or you can call me by value, which is 'Worth'."
R.I.P. Niklaus Wirth

[Zashxq]

fun fact, the original Tetris game was ported to PC using Turbo Pascal, which eventually led to its widespread popularity

[MikeM]

Pascal can compile extremely quickly in a single pass through the code. This was a major selling point. It also has great drag and drop IDEs like Delphi. John Carmack enjoyed Pascal and said the world could have easily embraced Pascal and avoided the pitfalls of C++ if it wasn't for the popularity of C among Linux users.

[luk]

So much memories. Pascal/Delphi was my first language. Delphi 7 was cool IDE.

[gwerneckpaiva]

I love that you're keeping the "hi mom" in your videos. It's a really great way to honour her.

[otakuotaku]

Can we just take a minute of respect for those Pascal students

[NarayanLoke]

Rest In Peace Niklaus Wirth. I have read his compiler book and Project Oberon book, both were amazing books and helped me a lot. Thank you for your contribution, Sir !!!

[codrutx]

I am a Pascal developer and I make apps in Delphi. With It you can compile to Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android IOS and basically everything. It's great!

[noblemode]

As a former Vietnamese High School student, i can say that till this day Pascal is still being used to teach Secondary and High School student how to code (recently Python and C/C++ is introduced)

[strawberry_blush]

This was the language I learned in school before I went over to C++. Good times :D

[GyroCannon]

RIP Niklaus Wirth. The syntax being familiar to us now means that it influenced a lot of languages that have come since, meaning that his indirect legacy is expansive. Truly a legend

[TobyDeshane]

Turbo/Borland Pascal is awesome. It helped me bridge the gap between BASIC and C in the 90s giving me direct access to inline assembler and all that. Big, big deal with MS-DOS game devs and the demo scene at the time.

[ercre]

People are still using it, tons of stuff is written in Pascal, even games like HROT. If you've worked with Golang before, its syntax is heavily inspired by Pascal, and for a good reason: very easy to parse both for humans and machine!

[EvanEdwards]

Pascal has a special place in my heart, even if I haven't touched it in decades. The P-System and later TurboPascal were phenomenal and carried through from the 8-bit era into VGA. C is still my minimalist true love and later languages my work spouses, but Pascal was my first serious love after my first years with assembler and BASIC (and yes, that pair was a very common starting set in that era: BASIC taught the logical concepts, and assembly taught you the engineered machine).

[bradskaw]

Something not mentioned is that Structered Text is based on Pascal, so in a way Pascal's legacy persists mostly in industrial programming.

[_fremdkoerper]

Pascal was the language we learned in school. Never really liked the syntax. But Lazarus as IDE was good and easy to use for total beginners, just drag and drop components onto the form, give them a name (or not) and use them in your code