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- From: wilson@mailhost.aa.cad.slb.com (David Wilson)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: Whither The Next ANSI Pascal Standard? (Breath of Life)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.155014.18794@aa.cad.slb.com>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 15:50:14 GMT
- Article-I.D.: aa.1992Aug21.155014.18794
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- 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...
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- A recent issue of ACM's SIPGLAN Notices had a letter from someone (I've
- misplaced it) offering copies of the proposed new standard for object
- extensions to Pascal, for comment or review. I conclude, therefore, that
- a standard for an extended version of Pascal is wending its way through
- the system.
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- Dave Wilson
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