BRINKMAN, ALEXANDER R. — Pascal Programming for Music Research

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1990. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0226075079. B&W Illustrations & Charts; This book is in Very Good+ condition and appears to have been issued without a dust jacket. The book is in clean, bright condition. There is a very slight dip to the spine of the book due to the weight of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. "Pascal was developed on the pattern of the ALGOL 60 language. Wirth was involved in the process to improve the language as part of the ALGOL X efforts and proposed a version named ALGOL W. This was not accepted, and the ALGOL X process bogged down. In 1968, Wirth decided to abandon the ALGOL X process and further improve ALGOL W, releasing this as Pascal in 1970. On top of ALGOL's scalars and arrays, Pascal enables defining complex datatypes and building dynamic and recursive data structures such as lists, trees and graphs. Pascal has strong typing on all objects, which means that one type of data cannot be converted to or interpreted as another without explicit conversions. Unlike C (and most languages in the C-family) , Pascal allows nested procedure definitions to any level of depth, and also allows most kinds of definitions and declarations inside subroutines (procedures and functions)." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .