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In article <391738EB.A7629A0B@dallas.net>,
Charles Richmond  <richmond@dallas.net> wrote:
>article on this paper once a long time ago...  Now ISO standard Pascal
>has basically *two* different standards...Level 0 Pascal and Level 1
>Pascal.  Kernighan's criticism was aimed at Level 0 Pascal.  Level 1
>Pascal was much more like Turbo Pascal, with more features that made
>it a usable language.

Hmmm.... I've always grouped Pascal into:

	Pascal
and
	Pascal with proprietary stuff bolted onto it to make it useable.

The former being basically a toy, useful for teaching programming
concepts and precicely nothing else, and the latter being the likes
of Turbo Pascal, VAX Pascal and friends.

Mainly, the extensions included the ability to call external modules
and talk to the file system in some useful manner.  Character string
handling, or at least the primitives to manage variable length arrays
was a common bolt-on too.

I don't recall any enhanced standard, although one may have come too
late to save the language.

-- don