Pascal
Pressure unit namesake
Pascal is a programming language developed in the late 1960s, designed for teaching structured programming and data structuring.
Named after the mathematician Blaise Pascal, it was widely used in computer science education through the 1980s and 1990s: I learned to code in Pascal before moving to C.
Pascal is also a French surname, most famously borne by Blaise Pascal, the 17th-century mathematician, physicist, and philosopher known for his work on probability, hydraulics, and religious thought. (Lowercase pascal is the unit of pressure.)
French given name
- triangleThree-sided plane figure
- theoremDemonstrated logical conclusion
- probabilityQuantified chance of occurrence
- FermatFrench number theorist
combinatorics · binomial · coefficients · geometry · conic · cycloid · arithmetic · calculating
French given name
- wagerStake on uncertainty
- apologeticsSystematic doctrine defense
- faithTrust without proof
- reasonBasis or justification
theology · Christianity · infinity · heart · wretchedness · diversion · grace · salvation
Blaise
French given name
- triangleThree-sided plane figure
- theoremDemonstrated logical conclusion
- probabilityQuantified chance of occurrence
Fermat · combinatorics · binomial · coefficients · geometry · conic · cycloid · arithmetic · calculating · prodigy
Blaise
French given name
- wagerStake on uncertainty
- apologeticsSystematic doctrine defense
- faithTrust without proof
reason · theology · Christianity · infinity · heart · wretchedness · diversion · grace · salvation · religious
Delphi
Greek prophetic sanctuary
- compilerSource-to-machine-code translator
- structuredArranged in organized form
- procedurePrescribed sequence of actions
begin · end · syntax · pointer · record · array · string · integer · boolean · unit
Newton
Famous scientific surname
- MathematiciansEuclid, Gauss, Euler, Archimedes, Pythagoras
- 17th Century ThinkersRene Descartes, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, John Locke
- Baroque Era FiguresDescartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Hobbes
- French ThinkersDescartes, Sartre, Foucault, Voltaire, Rousseau
- philosophersAristotle, Plato, Socrates, Kant, Descartes
- French MathDescartes, Fermat, Laplace, Grothendieck, Condorcet
Pascalmachine code
CPU-executable binary instructions
Haskell · C · JavaScript · Python · BASIC
PascalVoltaire
French Enlightenment satirist
David Hume · Friedrich Nietzsche · Diderot · Bertrand Russell · Nietzsche
- Pedro Pascal
- Pascal's triangleTriangular array of binomial coefficients
- Blaise PascalSeventeenth-century French mathematician-theologian
- Pascal's WagerRational case for faith