Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

After whose name PASCAL, a programming language is named

  1. Pascal Wirth

  2. James Bond

  3. Blaise Pascal

  4. Bill Gates
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Explanation

The Pascal programming language was named after Blaise Pascal, the 17th-century French mathematician and philosopher who invented the mechanical Pascaline calculator. The language itself was created by Niklaus Wirth in 1970 as a language for teaching structured programming. Wirth named it to honor Pascal's contributions to computing history.

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