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- From: gaertner@rz-berlin.mpg.de
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: Whither The Next ANSI Pascal Standard? (Breath of Life)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.123704.7699@rz-berlin.mpg.de>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 12:37:04 +0100
- References: <1992Aug18.084321.25762@reed.edu> <19AUG199209013396@gergo.tamu.edu>
- Organization: Rechenzentrum MPG Berlin
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- In article <19AUG199209013396@gergo.tamu.edu>, chris@gergo.tamu.edu (Chris King) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug18.084321.25762@reed.edu>, orpheus@reed.edu (P. Hawthorne) writes...
- >>Is there a proposal for an extension of the ANSI Pascal standard yet? The
- >>dark forces of illegibility and crypticism (C and C++) would seem to be at
- >>a major advantage, facing no competition from their archrival Pascal...
- >>
- >>Theus (orpheus@reed.edu)
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- [ some discusion deleted ]
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- > All in all, pascal will probably not change, since Wirth seems to have
- > dropped it. I think that pascal will always
- > be the language for application programmers and C will be the language of
- > system programmers. But then again what do I know.
- >
- > Chris King
- > Chris@gerga.tamu.edu
- > [72030,1304] via Compuserve
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- There is a new IEEE Pascal standard out; most of this standard is implemented
- in VAX Pascal.
- This new standard descibres all the little things (separate compilation for
- example), which were former arguments against Pascal.
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- Ralf
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- Ralf Gaertner
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