Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623–August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. Pascal was a child prodigy, who was educated by his father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences, where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators and the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by expanding the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also w ...

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Blaise Pascal - Religious conversion. Biographically, we can say that two basic influences led him to his conversion: sickness and Jansenism. As early as his eighteenth year he suffered from a nervous ailment that left him hardly a day without pain. In 1647 a paralytic attack so disabled him that he could not move without crutches. His head ached, his bowels burned, his legs and feet were continually cold, and required wearisome aids to circulation of the blood; he wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his fee ...

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Blaise Pascal - Religious conversion. Biographically, we can say that two basic influences led him to his conversion: sickness and Jansenism. As early as his eighteenth year he suffered from a nervous ailment that left him hardly a day without pain. In 1647 a paralytic attack so disabled him that he could not move without crutches. His head ached, his bowels burned, his legs and feet were continually cold, and required wearisome aids to circulation of the blood; he wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his fee ...

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In 1945 a nameless girl escaped from a prison camp in Karylos, Greece. She did not remember anything from her short past. She wandered through post-WW2 Mediterranean and Arabia. During these years she learned to survive the hard way. She befriended another wandering refugee, a Hungarian scholar named Lob who gave her an education and a name: Modesty Blaise. Eventually she took control of a criminal gang in Tangier and expanded it ...

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Object Pascal was a creation of Niklaus Wirth and Larry Tesler. It was created at Apple Computer in early 1985 through their collaboration. It added object-oriented extensions to the existing Pascal programming language. Object Pascal was needed in order to allow the creation of MacApp, an expandable Macintosh application framework that would now be called a class library. Object Pascal extensions and MacApp itself were done by Barry Hanes, Ken Doyle, Larry Rosenstein, and tested by Dan Allen. Larry Tesler oversaw the project whic ...

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Free Pascal - The early years. Free Pascal emerged when Borland made clear there would be no Borland Pascal 8, and the next version would be a Windows-only product (which turned out to become Delphi later on), and a student (Florian Paul Klämpfl) started working on his own compiler. The compiler was written in the (Borland) Turbo Pascal dialect from the start and produced 32-Bit code for the go32v1 DOS extender used and developed by the DJGPP project at this time. Originally the compiler itself was a 16-bit Dos executable compiled by Turbo Pascal. After two years, the compiler was able to ...

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One of the Modesty Blaise novels, "Last Day in Limbo", was adapted as a BBC radio drama in the 1980s. In the early 1980s, an audio tape reading of the short story, "I Had a Date with Lady Janet", was released featuring John Thaw as the voice of Willie Garvin. Modesty Blaise has been the inspiration for a number of similar (but usually inferior) book series, most notably the ultraviolent mid-1970s series The Baroness by Paul Kenyon. The 1993 American television series, South Beach was also inspired by Modesty Blaise, and fans of the character also see more than a few similarities betwe ...

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Both C and Pascal use keywords, or words reserved for use by the language itself. Examples are "if", "while", "const", "for" and "goto", which are also keywords that happen to be in common to both languages. Pascal is often said to be "wordy" compared to C. In Pascal, blocks begin and end with "begin" and "end". C uses "{" and "}", respectively. In Pascal, a function must begin with the keyword "function", a type with "type". In C, both ...

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Vesalius was born in Brussels, then in the Holy Roman Empire, to a family of physicians. His father, Andries van Wesel, was the illegitimate son of the Emperor Maximillian's Royal Physician, Everard Van Wesel. Andries went on to serve as apothecary to Maximillian, and later a Valet de Chambre to his successor Charles V. He encouraged his son to continue in the family tradition, and enrolled him in the Brothers of the Common Life School in Brussels to lea ...

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Pascal is based on the ALGOL programming language and named in honor of mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal. Wirth also developed Modula-2 and Oberon, languages similar to Pascal. Oberon also supports object-oriented programming. Initially, Pascal was a language intended to teach students structured programming, and generations of students have "cut their teeth" on Pascal as an introductory language in undergraduate courses. Variants of Pascal are still widely ...

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The statements used between C and Pascal are roughly analogous. if (x) ... else ... while (x) ... do ... while (x) ... switch (x) { case a: ...; case b: ...; default: } if x then ... else ... while x do ... repeat ... until x case x of a: ...; b: ... end Pascal, in its original form, did not have an equivalent version of "default" case (this is a common extension). C has so called "early out" statements "break" and "continue". Pascal does not. There is controversy about whether the inclusion of t ...

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Jan Krukowiecki was born December 15, 1772 in Lwów. He studied at the Theresianum in Vienna and joined the Austrian army. ...

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His family had been in America since 1632, and his father, Aaron Bancroft, was distinguished as a revolutionary soldier, clergyman and author. George was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, at Harvard University, at Heidelberg, Göttingen and Berlin. At Göttingen he studied Plato with Heeren, New Testament Greek with Eichhorn and natural science with Blumenbach. Having entered Harvard College at th ...

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He was born in Kassel in 1919 and grew up in Darmstadt. He practiced medicine up to 1966, specializing in Internal Medicine in Cologne. In the University of Cologne, he studied History, German Philology, Iberian-Latinoamerican history. He finished his doctoral studies in 1969. His doctoral thesis, Walther Rathenau: Seine Zeit, sein Werk, sein Persönlichkeit (Bremen: Schuenemann 1970) was published. In 1970, he was appointed Professor of ...

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John Bambenek was educated at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in theoretical astrophysics, receiving his B.A. in 2001. While at the University, he became involved in the evolving field of information security working with projects at SANS helping to develop books on securing Microsoft Windows and on intrusion detection. He was also involved with the Air Force ROTC, completing the trai ...

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Modesty Blaise debuted in the London Evening Standard on May 13, 1963. The strip was syndicated among a large number of newspapers ranging from the Johannesburg Star to the Detroit Free Press, the Bombay Samachar, The Calcutta Telegraph, (Calcutta, India), The West Australian (Perth, Australia) and The Evening Citizen, Glasgow, Scotland. After Jim Holdaway's death in 1970, the art of the strip was provided by the Spanish artist Romero. Eight years later, Romero quit to make time for his own comics projects, and after short atte ...

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Turbo Pascal was based on the Blue Label Pascal compiler originally produced for the NasSys cassette-based operating system of the Nascom microcomputer in 1981 by Anders Hejlsberg. This was first rewritten as the Compass Pascal compiler for the CP/M operating system and then as the Turbo Pascal compiler for DOS and CP/M. A version of Turbo Pascal was available for the Apple Macintosh from about 1986 but was eventually discontinued around 1992. See also:

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Goodell was born in Jamestown, Chautauqua County, N.Y., on March 16, 1926. He attended the public schools of Jamestown and later graduated from Williams College in 1948. During the Second World War he served in the United States Navy as a seaman second class 1944-1946, and in the United States Air Force as a first lieutenant during the Korean War 1952-1953. Goodell graduated from Yale University School of Law in 1951, and also received a graduate degree from Yale University Graduate School of Government in 1952; he was a teacher at Qu ...

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He was born in Łódź, Russian Empire (now Poland) Witold Hurewicz's father was an industrialist. Witold attended school in a Russian controlled Poland but with World War I beginning before he had begun secondary school, major changes occurred in Poland. In August 1915 the Russian forces which had held Poland for many years withdrew. Germany and Austria-Hungary took control of most of the country and the University of Warsaw was refounded and it began operating as a Polish university. Rapidly, a strong school of mathematics grew up in the U ...

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