On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:07:58 +0200, Matthias Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>With a few relaxations and extensions, you can get a surprisingly useful >language out of the rigid Pascal, as evidenced by Turbo Pascal, one of >the most popular (and practical) programming languages in the late 80ies >/ start of the 90ies. It was not a language. It was a product in the hand of a single company. The difference is that a product can die at the snaps of a marketroid, no matter how nice or how diffuse it is. Andrea -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list