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diff --git a/pascal.html.markdown b/pascal.html.markdown new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6877afef --- /dev/null +++ b/pascal.html.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +--- +language: Pascal +filename: learnpascal.pas +contributors: + - ["Ganesha Danu", "http://github.com/blinfoldking"] +--- + + +>Pascal is an imperative and procedural programming language, which Niklaus Wirth designed in 1968–69 and published in 1970, as a small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. It is named in honor of the French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal. +source : [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language)) + + + +to compile and run a pascal program you could use a free pascal compiler. [Download Here](https://www.freepascal.org/) + +```pascal +//Anathomy of a Pascal Program +//this is a comment +{ + this is a + multiline comment +} + +//name of the program +program learn_pascal; //<-- dont forget a semicolon + +type + { + this is where you should delcare a custom + data-types + } +var + { + this is where you should declare a variable + } + +//main program area +begin + { + area to declare your instruction + } +end. // End of a main program area should required a "." symbol +``` + +```pascal +//declaring variable +//you can do this +var a:integer; +var b:integer; +//or this +var + a : integer; + b : integer; +//or this +var a,b : integer; +``` +```pascal +program Learn_More; +//Lets learn about data types and their operations + +//Declaring variables +var + int : integer; // a variable that contains an integer number data types + ch : char; // a variable that contains a character data types + str : string; // a variable that contains a string data types + r : real; // a variable that contains a real number data types + bool : boolean; //a variables that contains a Boolean(True/False) value data types +Begin + int := 1;// how to assign a value to a variable + r := 3.14; + ch := 'a'; + str := 'apple'; + bool := true; + //pascal is not a case-sensitive language + //arithmethic operation + int := 1 + 1; // int = 2 overwriting the previous assignment + int := int + 1; // int = 2 + 1 = 3; + int := 4 div 2; //int = 2 a division operation which the result will be floored + int := 3 div 2; //int = 1 + int := 1 div 2; //int = 0 + + bool := true or false; // bool = true + bool := false and true; // bool = false + bool := true xor true; // bool = false + + r := 3 / 2; // a division operator for real + r := int; // you can assign an integer to a real variable but not the otherwise + + c := str[1]; // assign the first letter of str to c + str := 'hello' + 'world'; //combining strings +End. +``` + +```pascal + +```
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