To add my two cents to this debate.
I have always thought the ideal form of standards (or de facto thereof) came
from benevolent dictators. Borland did that job well for quite a long time,
a single vision developed well beats the design-by-committee half-compromise
path any day.
The problem
> I found your answers to my naive questions really interesting. And
> certainly I agree. Would it be possible to make them more visible on the
> web site of Free Pascal? In practice, include the texts you pointed to
> (iso-ansi discussion and delphilater) in the web site? Or did I missed
> them?
Hi Marco,
I found your answers to my naive questions really interesting. And
certainly I agree. Would it be possible to make them more visible on the
web site of Free Pascal? In practice, include the texts you pointed to
(iso-ansi discussion and delphilater) in the web site? Or did I missed
them?
> the question is interesting in my opinion. The standard for a language
> (C, Fortran, C++)
> or an authority able to define the language (Java)
Sun has owned Java for much of the time, as well as CG did
Delphi. I wouldn't place them in the same part as the former.
> helps to write code that w
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?). Pasca
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> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:45:01 +0300
> From: ik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Standardization of Modern Pascal
> To: "FPC-Pascal users discussions&qu
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Michael Van Canneyt
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, leledumbo wrote:
>
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>> 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 (th
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 to
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
stand
