jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) (05/08/91)
I'm having an argument (through intermediaries) with IBM about IBM's RS 6000 Pascal implementation. They say that they conform to the ISO standard, and that as a result, they have no need to change. I say that their implementation of interactive I/O is wrong because they don't do lazy I/O the same way as DEC, Prime, Sun, Berkeley Pascal, and OMSI Pascal (to name a few that run my old programs compatibly). They say that they do it the same as Turbo Pascal, and that should be enough. So -- what can I do? Is there a standard for lazy I/O behavior in Pascal? Are there some "recognized experts" or "recognized authoritative implementations" I can point to? Doug Jones jones@cs.uiowa.edu
mglacy@lamar.ColoState.EDU (05/08/91)
In article <5942@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes: >I'm having an argument (through intermediaries) with IBM about IBM's RS 6000 >Pascal implementation. They say that they conform to the ISO standard, and >that as a result, they have no need to change. > >I say that their implementation of interactive I/O is wrong because they >don't do lazy I/O the same way as DEC, Prime, Sun, Berkeley Pascal, and ....... What is "Lazy I/O?" I've been writing Pascal applications for the RS 6000, too, but haven't had this problem. (But, I'm primarily a TP user; my code *does* work under Vax VMS Pascal as well as TP and RS 6000). ---Mike Lacy