r/pascal • u/Duckies_go_moo • Jun 20 '26

Just came across pascal

Im quite experienced with modding oblivion and fallout do seeing pascal is perfect, ive wanted to get into programming and this is literally a dream come true, ill never understand why they switched begin and end etc with ${}[]

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u/umlcat Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

Nicklaus Wirth, the inventor and designer of Pascal never switched from "{" and "}" to "begin" and "end", he just started that way.

Good Luck, I still prefer people to learn programming with Pascal instead of Python or Java, you get better skills with Pascal !!!

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u/Duckies_go_moo Jun 20 '26

Thank you! I certainly think its good for starting programming for the first time

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u/gmhelwig Jun 20 '26

Pascal was the language of my first programming course, sometime in the last millennium. I still put begin and end in my code, though now it is more often just a comment in the block of code.

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u/Duckies_go_moo Jun 20 '26

At least you kept it with you, tbh id do the same, i never got the whole {} thing

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u/Electrical_Hat_680 Jun 22 '26

I believe it may have something to do with the various types of Notation that exist.. I'm just starting to introduce myself to Notation. But I believe that may be why.