233+ x pp. £13.15 (boards). The programming language PASCAL was

devised in 1968 and has become, particularly since the publication of the Revised Report1 in 1973, increasingly popular in the Computer Science departments of Universities where such attributes as its fast compilation, good diagnostics, efficient object code and, above all, the portability of its compiler have been particularly appreciated, in addition to its more obviously computer-science oriented features such as the set and pointer types. More recently, however, interest in Pascal has been awakened among non-computer scientists, including both converts from FOR-TRAN (who were quite unmoved by Algol 60 and its other derivatives) and converts fro