On 2022年03月05日, Avi Gross via Python-list <python-list at python.org> wrote: > I am not sure how we end up conversing about PASCAL on a Python > forum. > [...] > I paid no attention to where PASCAL was being used other than I did > much of my grad school work in PASCAL [...] It's "Pascal". It's not an acronym. It's a guy's name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal -- Grant