A preliminary version o~ the programming language Pascal was dra~ted in 1968. It ~ollowed in its spirit the A1gol-6m and Algo1-W 1ine o~ 1anguages. A~ter an ext

puter system. In 1971 one computer system had a Pascal compiler. By 1974 the number had grown to 10 and in 1979 there were more than 80. Pascal is always availa

A handbook on the PASCAL computer program language includes discussions of statements, simple expressions, parameters, subprograms, and structured types.

This book, written entirely by hand, is an introduction to programming in Pascal.

This manual is directed to those who have previously acquired some programming skill. The intention is to provide a means of learning Pascal without outside gui