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Implementation language
  
PascalABC.NET

Paradigm
  
Multi-paradigm: procedural, functional, object-oriented, generic

Designed by
  
S.S. Mikhalkovich, Ivan Bondarev, A.V. Tkachuk, S.O. Ivanov

First appeared
  
2002; 15 years ago (2002)

Stable release
  
3.2.0.1311 / 29 August 2016; 6 months ago (2016-08-29)

Typing discipline
  
Static, partially inferred

PascalABC.NET – is a Pascal programming language integrated development environment that implements classic Pascal, most Delphi language features, as well as a number of their own extensions. It is implemented on the Microsoft.NET platform and contains all the modern language features: classes, operator overloading, interfaces, exception handling, generic classes and routines, garbage collection, lambda expressions, parallel programming tools (OpenMP only as of 2016).

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PascalABC.NET is also a simple and powerful IDE with integrated debugger, IntelliSense system, form designer, code templates and code auto-formatting. Command-line PascalABC.NET compiler is also available on Linux and MacOS (under Mono).

PascalABC.NET is popular in Russian schools and universities. In Southern Federal University, it is used as the main language for teaching students of Information technology in the course "Fundamentals of programming" and for teaching children in one of the largest computer schools in Russia.

Programming Taskbook developed by Prof M. E. Abramyan is a part of PascalABC.NET. This taskbook contains 1100 learning tasks and covers almost all sections of a basic programming curriculum.

Pascal language extensions

  • Operators += -= *= /=
  • in-block variable definitions
  • Variable declaration in for loop header
  • Variable declaration with initialization (var n: integer := 10;)
  • Variable type deduction (var x := 1;)
  • foreach
  • Routines with a variable number of parameters
  • set of any type (set of integer)
  • Methods in records
  • Methods defined in class declaration
  • Simplified syntax of units
  • Keyword new для вызова конструктора
  • Field initializers
  • Operator overloading
  • Static constructors
  • Directives OpenMP
  • case for strings
  • function type syntax T->T
  • tuple type syntax (T1,T2)
  • yield and yield sequence
  • System units

    Most units are focused on education:

  • Raster graphics unit GraphABC
  • Vector graphics unit ABCObjects
  • Unit FormsABC to create simple windows application without form designer
  • Units-executors Robot and Drawman (school computer science)
  • References

    PascalABC.NET Wikipedia