Computer Science - Computer Fundamentals - Discussion

PASCAL is generally considered more suited for structured programming compared to the others listed. It was designed specifically to encourage good programming practices, emphasizing structured programming techniques like using subroutines, functions, and control structures such as loops and conditionals.

While other languages like FORTRAN and BASIC have evolved to support structured programming, PASCAL was created with structured programming principles in mind from the outset.

PASCAL languages is more suited to a structured program. 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.

How to understand these languages which is structured or not? Please explain me clearly.

Pascal is well-suited for structured programming because it enforces clear control flow structures, uses block organization, avoids unstructured jumps like goto, promotes structured data types, emphasizes code clarity, and supports procedures/functions for modularization.

These features make Pascal's code more readable, maintainable, and reliable.

Some of the languages initially used for structured programming include: ALGOL, Pascal, PL/I, Ada and RPL.

Both high- and low-level programming languages use non-structured programming.

Some languages commonly cited as being non-structured include JOSS, FOCAL, TELCOMP, assembly languages, MS-DOS batch files, and early versions of BASIC, Fortran, COBOL, and MUMPS.

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What's structured programming language and why?

A structured programming language is one that captures a task's logic in a smooth fashion similar to natural reasoning and creates a program with a structure that pursues ease of understanding.

PASCAL languages are more suited to a structured program.

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Pascal language is a fast language of a computer so Pascal is a correct answer.