The programming language Pascal
Niklaus Wirth · Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) · 1970
A programming language called Pascal is described which was developed on the basis of ALGOL 60. Compared to ALGOL 60, its range of a applicability is considerably increased due to a variety of data structuring facilities. In view of its intended usage both as a convenient basis to teach programming and as an efficient tool to write large programs, emphasis was placed on keeping the number of fundamental concepts reasonably small, on a simple and systematic language structure, and on efficient implementability. A one-pass compiler has been constructed for the CDC 6000 computer family; it is expressed entirely in terms of Pascal itself.