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Eduardo Romera wrote:
> 
> Dear friends:
> I'm Eduardo Romera, from Argentina. I would like to know which is it main
> application of this language? Thanks for all.
> Best wishes.
> MD Eduardo Romera eromera@cvtci.com.ar

Pascal:

Pascal was formerly invented by Niklaus Wirth in the ETH Zurich,
Switzerland, as an easy to use replacement for ALGOL. ALGOL is
a descriptive language for mathematical algorithms, that is:
how to solve an equation / formula / rule ... It is somewhat
more intended for use by mathematicians, while Fortran was made
for engineers. This is a raw distinction.

Pascal now is usable and used for application level programming
primarily, whereas C was made for system level programming. C
was developed as an improvement to macro assemblers to write the
kernel of Unix. But now it is heavily used for application level
programs too, especially C++. The major difference is the way
how the source code "sounds". Pascal source code is very well
self - explaining, in most cases you do not even need many comments,
while C programs look like a line noise even if they are commented.
(This is a rather bad comment, you see that I prefer Pascal over
C).

Pascal and its successors Modula 2, Oberon etc. are structured,
procedural languages as opposed to Fortran and Basic which are
kilometer languages full of GOTO and GOSUB, which is not used in
Pascal and ALGOL. C is structured and procedural too, but poorly
implemented.

In the last 10 years Pascal has been improved with OOP, object
oriented programming. This is a very powerful extension to
Pascal for bigger projects, but not standardized with Pascal.

With Windows many programmers switched to Delphi, which is a
RAD = Rapid Application Development system. It uses Pascal
syntax and structures, but is somewhat new in the way of working
with.

Hope you got information for your article now.

If you are new to Pascal, then look at the "famous" Pascal links
site, where you find any additional information.
http://www.geocities.com/~franzglaser/tp.html

Regards,
Franz Glaser, Austria
http://members.eunet.at/meg-glaser