Pascal and Basic

noun

• A unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter.
  • synonyms: Pa
• French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662.
  • synonyms: Blaise Pascal
• A programing language designed to teach programming through a top-down modular approach. .

Block-structured programming language developed originally as an aid to instruction, now widely used for applications development.

• French: Easter child - Lamb
• German: From the Late Latin name Paschalis, which meant "relating to Easter" from Latin Pascha "Easter", which was in turn from Hebrew pesah "Passover"
• Hebrew: Passover

noun

• A popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use.
• Usually plural. ( a necessary commodity for which demand is constant)
  • synonyms: staple

adjective

• Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis.
  • usage: "a basic fact"; "the basic ingredients"; "basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities"
• Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality.
  • usage: "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern"
  • synonyms: canonic, canonical
• Serving as a base or starting point.
  • usage: "a basic course in Russian"; "basic training for raw recruits"; "a set of basic tools"; "an introductory art course"
  • synonyms: introductory
• Of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base. .

• (a.) Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
• (a.) Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.
• (a.) Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
• (a.) Having the base in excess or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt.

• Name Meaning: Diminutive of Basil: Royal. Kingly. St Basil the Great was Bishop of Caesarea in the latter half of the 4th century. This name was introduced into Western Europe by the Crusaders. Derived from the same Greek word as the plant name basil
• Name Origin: Greek