A male given name used in medieval England; today occasionally borrowed from French
{i} programming language that encourages the use of well-constructed and understandable patterns (Computers); (French) first name; family name; Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French philosopher and mathematician, founder of modern probability theory
Computer programming language named for Blaise Pascal and based partly on ALGOL. It was developed by Niklaus Wirth of Zurich's Federal Institute of Technology in the late 1960s as an educational tool for systematic teaching of programming, with fast, reliable compilers. It was made available to the public in 1974 and was used by many universities for the next 15 years. Pascal strongly influenced languages developed later, such as Ada. Complex data structures and algorithms can be described concisely by Pascal, and its programs are easy to read and debug. Unit of pressure, abbreviated Pa, in the International System of Units. Named for Blaise Pascal, the unit is a pressure of one newton per square meter (1 N/m^2). It is inconveniently small for many purposes, and the kilopascal (kPa), 1,000 N/m^2, is more commonly used in engineering work (1 lb per sq in. equals 6.895 kPa). Pascal's law Pascal's principle Pascal's wager Pascal Blaise