Confessions of a Pascal Programmer...
In the beginning there was Apple... My pride and joy is programming. I started in elementary school (Overbrook on 64th & Malvern) with BASIC on Apple II's (1981). I continued taking programming classes in BASIC and PASCAL right up through high school (George Washington Carver High School for Engineering and Science). The Pascal language was named for Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician who was a pioneer in computer development history. In 1641, at the age of eighteen, Pascal constructed the first arithmetical machine, arguably the first computer. He would improve upon the instrument eight years later. In 1650, Pascal left the world of geometry and physics, and shifted his focus towards religious studies, or, as Pascal wrote, to... "contemplate the greatness and the misery of man" ... Pascal died in Paris on August 19, 1662. The earliest computers were programmed in machine code and assembly. This type of programming is tedious and error prone, as well as
