The Howdy Glossary

UCSD Pascal is a variant of the Pascal programming language developed in the late 1970s at the University of California, San Diego. The language was designed to be easy to learn and use for teaching programming concepts. It featured a virtual machine-based interpreter, which allowed programs written in UCSD Pascal to run on different computer platforms without modification. This system included an integrated development environment called the "Pascal/MT+" which had a text editor with syntax highlighting and error checking capabilities, as well as a compiler and debugger. The language was used in academic settings but failed to gain widespread adoption outside educational institutions due in part to its slow execution speed compared with native code compilation on other systems at that time.