[fpc-pascal] Standardization of Modern Pascal

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 7 Jul 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).

We'll sit around the table with CodeGear and try too cook up something :-)

I don't think that setting a standard will improve the userbase. 
As far as I know, VB is also not 'standardized', nor is the SAP variant
of Basic or OpenOffice basic. Nevertheless, they are used a lot.

Michael.