<human>:  How did Pascal (programming language) come to be?
<bot>: Pascal is named after Blaise Pascal, who wrote the first computer program in the 16th century. Pascal is a programming language that was developed in the 1970s by Niklaus Wirth, who was a student of Alan Turing, the inventor of the modern computer. Pascal was designed to be a simple language for writing programs, and was intended to be easy to learn for students. Pascal was designed to be compatible with other languages, such as C and C++, so that programmers could easily use the same code for multiple applications.