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. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
