Rest in piece legend, programming languages creators need be remembered and known. Thanks Fireship

I love how its syntax feels oddly "modern"

The syntax doesn't look half bad actually, compared to some other old languages

Fun fact: FL Studio, a very popular digital audio workstation is written in delphi, a modern, object oriented version of pascal. (Also applies to early versions of skype!)

I love that you're keeping the "hi mom" in your videos. It's a really great way to honour her.

"You can call me by name which is 'Veert' or you can call me by value, which is 'Worth'." R.I.P. Niklaus Wirth

So much memories. Pascal/Delphi was my first language. Delphi 7 was cool IDE.

Rest In Peace Niklaus Wirth. I have read his compiler book and Project Oberon book, both were amazing books and helped me a lot. Thank you for your contribution, Sir !!!

fun fact, the original Tetris game was ported to PC using Turbo Pascal, which eventually led to its widespread popularity

Can we just take a minute of respect for those Pascal students

Pascal can compile extremely quickly in a single pass through the code. This was a major selling point. It also has great drag and drop IDEs like Delphi. John Carmack enjoyed Pascal and said the world could have easily embraced Pascal and avoided the pitfalls of C++ if it wasn't for the popularity of C among Linux users.

RIP Niklaus Wirth. The syntax being familiar to us now means that it influenced a lot of languages that have come since, meaning that his indirect legacy is expansive. Truly a legend

This was the language I learned in school before I went over to C++. Good times :D

As a former Vietnamese High School student, i can say that till this day Pascal is still being used to teach Secondary and High School student how to code (recently Python and C/C++ is introduced)

He still wrote hi mom, i love this guy. Rest in peace

I'm about to finish the university and during the first two years some lecturers almost worshipped Niklaus' "algorithms and data structures" and highly recommended them to us. It was actually like a small joke among our group really, because of how often we've heard his name. I wasn't expecting the video to end like this at all. Rest in peace, Wirth

This language made me fall in love with programming

To make it just after Niklaus Wirth passing was a legendary move, thanks fireship

Pascal will alway be in my heart, not in my memory as I have forgotten most of it after half a year of learning c++.

Turbo/Borland Pascal is awesome. It helped me bridge the gap between BASIC and C in the 90s giving me direct access to inline assembler and all that. Big, big deal with MS-DOS game devs and the demo scene at the time.

Something not mentioned is that Structered Text is based on Pascal, so in a way Pascal's legacy persists mostly in industrial programming.

Please do Elm in 100 seconds next! It hasn't gotten the love it deserves in a while.

Pascal has a special place in my heart, even if I haven't touched it in decades. The P-System and later TurboPascal were phenomenal and carried through from the 8-bit era into VGA. C is still my minimalist true love and later languages my work spouses, but Pascal was my first serious love after my first years with assembler and BASIC (and yes, that pair was a very common starting set in that era: BASIC taught the logical concepts, and assembly taught you the engineered machine).

I respect the fact the you still keep the 'Hi mom!' quotes. Keep the great content up!!!

People are still using it, tons of stuff is written in Pascal, even games like HROT. If you've worked with Golang before, its syntax is heavily inspired by Pascal, and for a good reason: very easy to parse both for humans and machine!

That moment of relief when fireship drop a video about an absolete technology so you don't feel that you have to learn new stuff this time

Pascal was the language of instruction for CS at my university in the 1980s. They also taught a bit of C, C++, Modula-2 (another Niklaus Wirth language), Lisp, Eiffel, and APL.

I learned Pascal in high school. I remember doing class assignments for the whole class. I liked the graphics mode, too. I started programming before high school with BASIC. And I am still a programmer to this day. Thank you for creating this awesome language! And thank you Fireship for this video!

Pascal was the language we learned in school. Never really liked the syntax. But Lazarus as IDE was good and easy to use for total beginners, just drag and drop components onto the form, give them a name (or not) and use them in your code

Turbo Pascal was my first programming language and pretty much hooked me on programming. Very sad to have learned that Wirth passed. Rest in peace, legend.

pascal looks more clean than newer languages. I actually like how you would return stuff, it can make your code for very specific functions super clean

The first language I had contact with. Really loved the syntax, and easy to learn.

My programming journey was started from Pascal! Once in ~2017 my classmate brought old Soviet Pascal book to school. The very first "Hello World" in my life was written in this language. Thanks for the video!

So nostalgic for my Pascal programming days. Was a great language!

My first programming language in the 90s! Takes me back… Extra special thanks for this one.

One cool features was that it allowed to created subtypes of existing types, i.e. you could define a new range of integers including only 0 to 42. In debug builds (for example when running test benches) it will crash the program on over- or underflows of your custom type. When the program runs correctly it will give you a minor optimization because you can just leave out any range checking and you also intrinsically documented the allowed value ranges directly in the code without additional comments.

Love the 100 seconds series!!! Thank you!

It was my first programming language! Thank you for this!

RIP Niklaus Wirth. I used Pascal as a hobby before learning C and C++ and liked it, but not as much as C/C++. Years later, I was doing C++ work in an environment where there were some Delphi programmers. They showed me how it worked and was different to Pascal -- I was impressed. Then he said, "Watch this. I'm going to compile." He hit the compile button and before his hand had lifted from the kbd it was done. Holy sh*t! When I did a compile I could make a cup of coffee before it finished. Delphi used modules or similar, like modules and interfaces in Modula-2, a language I knew too much about, so when you hit compile it would know exactly what it needed to compile and what not to. Change a header file but not the source it referred to, then just compile the header. Brilliant.

I am one of those who started programing with Pascal. It was not easy at first but I loved it. Nostalgy to me to see it in this channel getting some fame. Gold old days :P

My first programing language :) memories

As a demoscene loving teen in the eighties I loved programming Turbo Pascal, especially because of the ease with which one could insert blocks of assembler code.

Niklaus Wirth also created a few other variants meant to improve on Pascal, such as Modula-2. Modula-2, in particular, improved on the package management and piecemeal linking -- a style that would later be copied by Java. In the original Jurassic Park film, you can see Modula-2 code in the IDE for the brief moments that code is actually visible... So yeah, apparently those 2 million lines were Modula-2.

A couple of mistakes: - Not based on Algol-60, but based on Algol-W, which was also created by Niklaus Wirth. - You gave the definition of imperative programming when talking about procedural programming. Procedural programming is defined by separating your programming tasks into records and procedures (hence the name). Pascal is notable as one of the first major procedural languages.

Delphi was my first programming language.

Pascal was my first programming language in IT technical school. Greetings to my excellent teacher Marcin, who inspired me to start coding 💪

This brings back a lot of memories. It was my first programming language and watching this reminds me that I'm old now :( RIP Niklaus Wirth

I first learned about pascal through Programmable logic controllers (PLC) used in industrial automation. PLC devices use a variety of different languages like ladder or Structured Text. structured text being based on pascal and one of the most common ways of programming PLC devices today. It was a great introduction for somebody like me that didn't know a lot about programming to get into it and start learning other languages.

He still writes “Hi mom” instead of “hello world” 😭

Delphi was my first exposure to programming back in the early 2000s... GUI application development seems to have only gotten worse since

Amazing! I spent years writing in Pascal and Assembly. I have implemented my own scripting language and developed a Fallout-like RPG for DOS, then ported it to Windows using Delphi and DirectDraw. I’m now resurrecting it using Unity engine, 3D models and C#, but Pascal is like one’s first love that you can never forget. Thank you Niklaus! ❤

I was learning the procedure and functions for postgresql yesterday and today I saw a video even though the language is different. I still get cleared with misconceptions i had thanks fireship 👍.

I like the separation of the function and procedure feature. Very intent.

Another language to add to my resume

Wow, what a trip down memory lane, I loved turbo pascal,moved the clipper afterwards coz TP didn't have ready way to create a database, so was my start to being a software developer of over 30 years. Whoop whoop.... Thanks for the nostalgia... ❤

Ahh Pascal, I learned to program in it. You just brought back some happy loving memories from high school :)

Pascal is one of those languages that "feels" dead, but has had a huge comeback in the 21st century thanks to languages inheriting a lot of its design choices. Pascal and Delphi might not be greenfield appropriate, but neither is C, and just about every modern language dips deep into both. And if you're an Ada programmer, of which is still a very active language with many greenfield projects, you've basically covered the core of Pascal.

pls ADA language next!! 100 seconds series is awesome

Brings an amazing nostalgia reading that code. When I was 7 I was first taught to program in Pascal. It was a great time.

RIP. Nice that you made this video. It's actually the first language I learned in school. Most likely the teacher learned it in the 80s and then just kept teaching it.

RIP Prof. Wirth 😥

Learned Delphi in school, loved how easily you can build small GUI tools in it.

I remember learning this as one of my first forays into programming. Legend of a language

I actually learned Pascal in high school as my first programming language. I think its a great program to learn how to code.

In Hong Kong, Pascal in highschool is a very popular language to teach due to its simple and straight forward syntax compared to other options i.e. Java and C. My coding journey basically starts from here, learning all the basic things from variable, functions to bubble sort etc. After getting into college, of course I found out there is nearly no one except us using this language so there is very limited use case of it, but the days writting Pascal is some of the happiest time in my coding journey.

In my opinion this may be the greatest language to teach and to start. Great at demonstrate math, algorithms but not so complex as C family. This was also the first language that middle secondary school taught me and successfully created my passionate with coding. So much thanks to Fireship for reminding me of Pascal

I literally searched your channel last night for this, so I could sell Pascal to my kids to get them to learn programming, nice work, thank you!

This was the programming language that was taught in the first semester at my uni. It might be old and not in use anymore but i really like the learning experience it gave me :)

Pascal was the first language we studied at university back in the days. With OOP support later in Delphi, I think it's quite modern and powerful, popularity decline can be explained by mostly lack of commercial hype. Still usable even in these days. R.I.P. Niklaus Wirth.

I went to high school in 2010 and Pascal was still being used in computer class to teach programming. We had a really outdated syllabus...

I was waiting for this! Pascal was my very first programming language in High School!

I learned programming with this language. I love it.

They still teach us Pascal in school 💀

In Belarus we still learn algorithms with it

I saw the video title and I watched for the Niklaus Wirth mention; leaving satisfied -- I even watched the rest of it after he was mentioned.

This is such a succinctly told explanation, I love it.

Good old days in 2000 when I was learning Turbo Pascal :D the only think I remember: if grgr ok then halt It's awesome to start learning programming again (JavaScript)

God, we Swiss dudes are just amazing.

Oh the memories this brings back! This is why my carreer got all started.

I picked up Basic on my own as a kid, but my first actual programming class was Pascal in high school, in 1995. At that point the lab was running PowerPC Macs and we used an IDE called CodeWarrior

1:33 "Hi mom!" It really hurts 😢

1:27 how sweet🥲

I remember being introduced to programming in Pascal when I was 11 years old. It sparked a passion in me for solving puzzles in such a beautifully abstract, algorithmic way. I had then decided to become a programmer, even knowing so little. Fast forwards many years later, I'm happy to have achieved a Masters degree in CS, and a great job as a Software Engineer! I couldn't be happier for choosing this career path, and more thankful to the kind, wholesome professor who taught me how to think within computer's mind.

Thank you for a great video! This was a first programming language that I’ve learnt in the end of 90th.

C is the best

One of my senior level classes had us making a compiler for a subset of pascal. It was surprisingly simple to wrap my head around it, both on the human side of understanding pascal syntax, and the compiler side of parsing it. Not easy, but simple.

As someone who used Delphi specifically in my high school IT class. This has a special place in my heart.

This was the very first programming language I learned back in high school.This video was quite nostalgic.

Great to see this covered

Ha. That's actually the first programming language I've ever "worked" with. We didn't have proper equipment at my school for real IT-education, but there was a voluntary work group where you could either learn something about electronics or about computers. I don't know what exactly they did in the electronics section (they had some boards where they could plug-in different elements like lights and switches), but in the computers section we had two old computers to play around with. I think they were both i386s and already very old. One team was programming wit Turbo Pascal on the one PC, while the other team was trying to get the other computer to start. I've had a lot of fun there, but I didn't want to get into programming after that. It took me six years after that school to realize that software development isn't so bad after all and now I'm a senior software developer. Thanks for reminding me about this, Jeff! :)

Your channel is just perfect! I hope you never change a thing...

Thank you so much for making this video ❤

Finally I was waiting for this Thx!

Thank you Fireship for the history documentary. I would have never known of this otherwise. Rest in piece Niklaus Wirth

Loved the REPEAT ... UNTIL construct. Clearest loop description ever.

Turbo Pascal was the first proper language I learnt, after Applesoft Basic, and it really set how I've thought of programming over the last 30 years. Thanks Mr Wirth for your contribution to programming!

My first high level language was Basic in the late 70s as a kid. It was trivial to move to Pascal when I went to university in the mid 80s. I then went on to learn Modula 2 (also from Wirth), and only learned C and then C++ in the 90s. Turbo pascal really was astounding. Imagine a time when compiling even trivial programs took many 10s of seconds, and TP came along and did it under 5 seconds.

Turbo Pascal was my introduction to programming in 2006 It was certainly an older choice for the time, and I don't remember any of what we learned, but I'm thankful for the journey it put me on

I learned how to code with Pascal and Turbo Pascal back in 2010. THANK YOU! 😢

I don't remember using types with turbo pascal, but I do remember that the structured paradigm blew my mind coming from BASIC's numbered lines and its GOTO loops. I enjoyed it a lot. That was long time ago. Thanks for the video