Who is the creator of the PASCAL language?
A
Niklaus Wirth
B
Dijkstra
C
Donald Knuth
D
Basic Pascal
E
None of the above
Correct Answer: Niklaus Wirth
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. Pascal runs on a variety of platforms, such as Windows, Mac OS, and various versions of UNIX/Linux.