Though most BBS software had been written in BASIC or Pascal ( with some low-level routines written in assembly language ), the C language was starting to gain popularity.

Its first product was Turbo Pascal in 1983, developed by Anders Hejlsberg ( who later developed. NET and C # for Microsoft ) and before Borland acquired the product sold in Scandinavia under the name of Compas Pascal.

Blaise Pascal (; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662 ), was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher.

Pascal was an important mathematician, helping create two major new areas of research: he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science.

His father, Étienne Pascal ( 1588 – 1651 ), who also had an interest in science and mathematics, was a local judge and member of the " Noblesse de Robe ".

Particularly of interest to Pascal was a work of Desargues on conic sections.

Following Desargues ' thinking, the sixteen-year-old Pascal produced, as a means of proof, a short treatise on what was called the " Mystic Hexagram ", Essai pour les coniques (" Essay on Conics ") and sent it — his first serious work of mathematics — to Père Mersenne in Paris ; it is known still today as Pascal's theorem.

The money was invested in a government bond which provided if not a lavish then certainly a comfortable income which allowed the Pascal family to move to, and enjoy, Paris.

The first known public bus line ( known as a " Carriage " at that time ) was launched by Blaise Pascal in 1662 and was quite popular until fares were increased and access to the service was restricted to high society members by regulation.

One of the main theses of casuists was the necessity to adapt the rigorous morals of the Early Fathers of Christianity to modern morals, which led in some extreme cases to justify what Innocent XI later called " laxist moral " ( i. e. justification of usury, homicide, regicide, lying through " mental reservation ", adultery and loss of virginity before marriage, etc .— all due cases registered by Pascal in the Provincial Letters ).

It was famously attacked by the Catholic and Jansenist philosopher Pascal, during the formulary controversy against the Jesuits, in his Provincial Letters as the use of rhetorics to justify moral laxity, which became identified by the public with Jesuitism ; hence the everyday use of the term to mean complex and sophistic reasoning to justify moral laxity.

More subtle is the slight over-representation of string operations, which is largely language-related: both Ada and Pascal have strings as normal variables in the language, whereas C does not, so what was simple variable assignment in reference benchmarks became buffer copy operations in the C library.

This harpsichord is the work of two celebrated makers: originally constructed by Andreas Ruckers in Antwerp ( 1646 ), it was later remodeled and expanded by Pascal Taskin in Paris ( 1780 ).

This idea was later utilized by Pascal, Leibniz, Monge and Poncelet, among others, and became known as geometric continuity and as the Law or Principle of Continuity.

The first explicit formulation of the principle of induction was given by Pascal in his Traité du triangle arithmétique ( 1665 ).

Monster was a multi-user adventure game created by Richard Skrenta for the VAX and written in VMS Pascal.

It was developed in Switzerland in the late 1970s by Niklaus Wirth, the same person who designed Pascal.

Wirth was the chief designer of the programming languages Euler, Algol W, Pascal, Modula, Modula-2, Oberon, Oberon-2, and Oberon-07.

It has its origins in correspondence discussing the mathematics of games of chance between Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat in the seventeenth century, and was formalized and rendered axiomatic as a distinct branch of mathematics by Andrey Kolmogorov in the twentieth century.

A derivative known as Object Pascal designed for object-oriented programming was developed in 1985.

Pascal, named in honor of the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal, was developed by Niklaus Wirth

In 1989, French composer Pascal Dusapin ( born 1955 ) wrote a solo piece called In et Out for double bass.

Niklaus Emil Wirth ( born February 15, 1934 ) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering.

* Adam Pascal ( born 1970 ), American actor and singer, best known for his role of Roger Davis in the Broadway musical Rent

Alain Marie Pascal Prost, OBE, Chevalier de la Légion d ' honneur ( born 24 February 1955 in Lorette, Loire ) is a French racing driver.

Pascal Lissouba ( born November 15, 1931 ) was the first democratically elected President of the Republic of the Congo from August 31, 1992 to October 15, 1997.

* Vitalic ( born as Pascal Arbez in 1976 ), an electronic music artist

In 1937 their son Pascal was born.

Pascal Couchepin ( born April 5, 1942 in Martigny, Valais ) is a Swiss politician, former member of the Swiss Federal Council ( 1998 – 2009 ) and President of the Confederation in 2003 and 2008.

Jacqueline Pascal ( October 4, 1625 – October 4, 1661 ), sister of Blaise Pascal, was born at Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France.

** Pascal Poirier, historian ( born 1852 )

* August 19-Blaise Pascal, philosopher ( born 1623 )

* October 4-Jacqueline Pascal, poet and dramatist, sister of Blaise Pascal ( born 1625 )

* Pascal Hens ( born 1980 ), German team handball player

Pascal Quignard ( born April 23, 1948 ) is a French writer born in Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure.

* Pascal Bruckner ( born 1948 ), French writer

Pascal Dusapin ( b. 29 May 1955 ) is a French composer born in Nancy.

Pascal Salin ( born in 1939 ) is a French free market economist, professor emeritus at the Université Paris-Dauphine and a specialist in public finance and monetary economics.

* At the prompting of the Chevalier de Méré, Blaise Pascal corresponds with Pierre de Fermat on gambling problems, from which is born the theory of probability.

* August 19-Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist ( born 1623 )

* September 24-Étienne Pascal, French mathematician ( born 1588 )

* Pascal Janin ( born 1956 ), French footballer and football manager