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Dave Daniels <a__fake__address@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> think the standardisation committee decided that the first Pascal
> standard would keep to the Jensen and Wirth version of the
> language. There is a later Pascal standard, ISO 10206 I think,
> that adds a lot of features such as separate compilation, string
> handling and a proper string type, complex numbers and so forth.
> The standard came out in about 1990. I suspect that that was
> probably a bit late in the life of the language for it to have
> much impact.

..and by that point the "de facto" Pascal standard was Turbo -- and the
real Wirth fans had moved on to Modula-2 and Modula-3 (languages I think
are almost infinitely better than Pascal for writing non-trivial programs).

Oberon is interesting (I was a great advocate of it for some time) but
unless you're willing to think entirely in terms of extending an Oberon system
rather than writing standalone programs, it doesn't make much sense as a
general-purpose development language.

pete
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