Sorry for the question.

**Sly** · 20-01-2005, 10:32 PM

Pascal was invented by Nicholas Wirth a long time ago to help teach programming.

Borland took Pascal and extended it to become Object Pascal by adding classes (and a whole heap of other stuff along the way).

Delphi was created by Borland as a rapid application development (RAD) environment that used the Object Pascal language. Through the various versions of Delphi, the Object Pascal was extended even further. Around the time of the release of Delphi 7, Borland officially changed the name of Object Pascal to Delphi. So now we have the IDE called Delphi and the language called Delphi.

FreePascal has also taken the basic Pascal language and enhanced it, usually following the same implementation that Borland used. FreePascal has differed in some small details, and has enhanced even further in other directions, but it does have a Delphi-compatible mode (-Mdelphi).

**WILL** · 21-01-2005, 04:51 AM

The only missing part of Pascal's history remaining is the timeframe from when Dr. Wirth created the original dialect of Pascal up until Borland created Delphi and with it it's latest major alteration of the language 'Object Pascal'.

In the 70s, Before Borland came into the picture, Dr. Wirth also created an enhanced version called 'UCSD Pascal' which had many inprovements. Sometime after that in the early 80s it became THE language to use as it far out-did FORTRAN, COBALT and most other languages of the day. Apple made it it's #1 language for all of their development even.

Borland eventualy got on the band wagon, and in my oppinion this is where the language flourished in the compiler called Turbo Pascal. They made 7 versions, plus 2 more 'Borland Pascal 7' and I think ithe other was called 'Borland Pascal for Windows'... I cannot recall how exactly that went.

But around that time DOS was a dying enviroment and Windows was taking over as #1 so... Borland started making Delphi abandoning the Turbo Pascal line of compilers. The rest is pretty much what you see now. Do we face a 2nd revolution in Pascal's history? I certanly hope so :twisted:

For a more accurate history of the Pascal language check out this article it's pretty accurate from what I can tell. http://www.taoyue.com/tutorials/pascal/history.html