Entertaining Pascal 7 History The Pascal programming language was created in 1970 based on the ALGOL-60 language. Pascal was created by Niklaus Wirth in 1968–1969 after his participation in the work of the committee for the development of the ALGOL-68 language standard. The language is named after the French mathematician, physicist, writer and philosopher Blaise Pascal, who created one of the world's first mechanical machines that added two numbers. Wirth's first publication on language dates back to 1970; In introducing the language, the author stated as the goal of its creation the construction of a small and efficient language that promotes good programming style using structured programming and structured data.