[fpc-pascal] Standardization of Modern Pascal

Adriaan van Os fpc at microbizz.nl
Mon Jul 7 16:07:01 CEST 2008


leledumbo wrote:
> Why Modern Pascal isn't standardized? Take a look at its other brothers and
> sisters, for example C & Fortran. (AFAIK) C has been standardized in 1989
> and 1999 (there perhaps earlier ones), while Fortran in 60,77,..(I forgot
> these ones, there are too many),2000,2003(,2005?). Pascal has only 2
> standards, ISO-7185 (Standard Pascal) in 1990 and 10206 (Extended Pascal) in
> 1991. Since most todays Pascal programmers use Modern Pascal, I think it's
> worth to be standardized. At least, those Anti-Pascal community will no
> longer argue about standard (which I hate very much).

I don't see your point. As you write, the Pascal standards are already there.

Regards,

Adriaan van Os







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