Think Pascal

In the power Industry, computers are widely used in many areas such as planning and operations. The Issues of system security and reliability have prompted many utilities to have modern control centers where a computer is the main component. Concomitantly, declining hardware costs ( and increasing computing power ) have led the engineer to have his own desk-top computer or work-station. However, the programming language used by the power industry remained the same over the last three decades. In this paper, we highlight the changes in information processing related to the power industry and present the relative suitabilities of FORTRAN and PASCAL. Further, the capabilities of PASCAL are illustrated by relevant examples in various power engineering fields. We also show how structured languages like PASCAL can improve our thinking processes by proposing an efficient modification related to sparsity programming. Finally, we intend to focus attention of power industry on the programming language ADA for future adoption.