ddb@mrvax.DEC (DAVID DYER-BENNET MRO1-2/L14 DTN 231-4076) (02/01/85)
>Pascal is a language that is described in the book >"PASCAL User Manual and Report" by Jensen and Wirth. If a feature or >capability is not in this book then it's not in the language. >As for the second point - 'the most recent version' of Pascal is not ISO >Pascal. The most recent version is whatever someone has recently written >that he has decided to call 'Pascal'. >I think ANSI has a standards committee >working on Pascal. If this committee succeeds - then there will be a >'Standard Pascal' which will be the appropriate version for net.lang to >discuss. Why is ANSI (American National Standards Institute) any more authoritative than ISO (International Standards Organization)????? These comments come across as very provincial to me, or just plain ignorant. -- David Dyer-Bennet -- ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-mrvax!ddb