Niklaus Wirth received am M.S. degree from the University of Quebec in 1962 and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1963. He then returned to his undergraduate "alma mater", the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, to teach. While serving there in 1971, he announced a new language he had designed and named Pascal. Pascal, became very popular in the 1970s and early 1980s because of its emphasis on the sequence, selection, iteration, and invocation control structures.
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