On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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.
The same goes also to Perl, python, Ruby and PHP. They do not have standard, but they are used. I do think there there should be some guidelines regarding modern Pascal development. But this guidelines will very between each project and it's goals. I think that the path of FPC is going to the right direction, while CodeGear try to make Pascal closer to Java/C#. It seems that the verity of dialects also contribute for the progress of the language, while languages such as C lack of such progress IMHO. > > Michael. my 0.02 cents :) Ido -- http://ik.homelinux.org/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
