Pascal-XSC
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Pascal-XSC is a Pascal
Pascal (programming language)
Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in 1968/9 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.A derivative known as Object Pascal...

 compiler oriented towards scientific computation. It is available under an approximation of the GPL

Originating at the University of Karlsruhe, it is the successor to Pascal-SC which was an ESPRIT project doi:10.1016/0898-1221(87)90181-7. Some of the Pascal-SC language extensions have also been adopted by GNU Pascal
GNU Pascal
GNU Pascal is a Pascal compiler composed of a frontend to GNU Compiler Collection , similar to the way Fortran and other languages were added to GCC...

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Pascal-SC originally targeted the Z80 processor, but was later rewritten for DOS (x86) and 68000. Pascal-XSC has at various times been ported to unix (Linux, SunOS, HP-UX, AIX) and Microsoft/IBM (MS-DOS with EMX, OS/2, Windows) operating systems. It operates by generating intermediate C source code which is then compiled to a native executable.

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