fsbrn@Brl-Voc.ARPA (03/28/84)
From: "Ferd Brundick (VLD/LTTB)" <fsbrn@Brl-Voc.ARPA>
Hi,
Now that Turbo Pascal is becoming fairly widespread, there has been a
fair amount of mail about it on info-micro and info-cpm. I would like
to know if there is enough interest in NetLand to start an info-pascal
list. After all, Ada, LISP, and Prolog all have their own lists, so
why shouldn't Pascal (no flames, please!) ?? Turbo may be the driving
force, but there was a recent discussion on generating random numbers
in Pascal (for JRT) and there are a <lot> of public domain Pascal/Z
files. The list should not be restricted to micro Pascals only, but
should include whatever implementations people are using. For example,
I originally learned Pascal on a Cyber 176 (Pascal-6000) and have used
Pascal-VU, Berkeley Pascal, JRT, MT+, Apple Pascal, and Turbo. Pascal
is "standardized" enough that a problem that a person has in one
implementation (like the random number generator) may have been solved
by someone else using their implementation.
So all you Pascallers out there, send me your ids and we'll see if we
can get this list off the ground.
dsw, fferd
Fred S. Brundick
USABRL, APG, MD.
<fsbrn@brl-voc>POURNE@Mit-Mc.ARPA (03/30/84)
From: Jerry E. Pournelle <POURNE@Mit-Mc.ARPA> okay by me, add me to list