PASCAL language used for TI computers and microprocessors

PASCAL, a general-purpose, block-structured language known for its ease and speed of use and maintainability, was introduced by TI as the high-level language support for its 9900 family microprocessors. PASCAL fostered designs and implementations that were highly structured and were independent of processor architecture and instruction set. PASCAL was straightforward to learn and use because it excluded most exceptions, special cases and defaults, which made other languages hard to master. The readability of PASCAL made the language particularly useful when programs were maintained by programmers other than the original author.