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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!network.jyu.fi!sakkinen
- From: sakkinen@jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
- Subject: Re: Where is general Pascal group?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.104939.14727@jyu.fi>
- Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
- References: <1992Nov4.190755.25383@polaris.utu.fi> <mByRTB4w165w@digsol.jpunix.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:49:39 GMT
- Lines: 49
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- In article <mByRTB4w165w@digsol.jpunix.com> newton@digsol.jpunix.com (Michael Nichols) writes:
- >Risto Virtanen <rvirta@utu.fi> writes:
- >
- >> Most of this group is about TurboPascal versions and idiosyncracies!
- >> But I don't use TurboPascal:-( So where is pure Pascal group?
- >> Or should there be a separate Turbo group?!?
- >>
- >> Just asking...
- >
- >
- >Despite its ideocyncracies when run under different operating
- >environments, the basic PASCAL language is the same. If anyone has
- >questions regarding "Pure Pascal," I'm sure any one of us could answer or
- >would be interested in discussing it. This IS the general Pascal board,
- >however, there is no "Standard Pascal." Every compiler is slightly
- >different. However, they have enough in common with each other to be
- >understood by most any Pascal programmer, being the high-level language
- > ...
-
- Oh no!
-
- 1. There most certainly is a Standard Pascal, no quote signs needed.
- It's an ISO standard (IBM, Microsoft, and Borland are not the only
- standard-setting bodies in the world).
- There is also an Extended Pascal, which
- may already be accepted as an ISO standard (I am not sure).
-
- 2. Turbo Pascal arrogantly continues to omit some essential standard
- features, like procedures and functions as parameters, or buffers
- for file variables. This is "recompensed" with innumerable Turbo
- specialties.
-
- 3. Most of the postings in this group are _very_ specific to TP
- or even to the hardware of some particular PC clone.
- I am sure that many other people beside myself who would have
- some interest in Pascal at large, have stopped following
- the group regularly.
-
- 4. There is indeed enough traffic for splitting.
-
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