Turbo Pascal version 1.0 - Niklaus Wirth and the road to Pascal
The story of Turbo Pascal version 1.0 cannot be written without writing about Niklaus Wirth and the road to the Pascal programming language.
How did Pascal arrive on the scene in the computing industry? Programming in the early computer years was dominated by a few programming languages including Fortran, COBOL, Basic, PL/I, Lisp, Assembler, and Algol languages. As programs grew larger [...]