hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe) (03/15/90)
Over on comp.lang.pascal, John Reagan, X3J9 Secretary, posted a summary of
the new features in Extended Pascal, shortly to become a IEEE/ANSI
standard. I have quoted a few excerpts from his posting (though none
dealing with the summary; that can be found on c.l.p):
*Before the list of features, I'll talk about availability... To the
*best of my knowledge, there is no complete implementation of Extended
*Pascal yet (as of 13-Mar-1990). However, this is not surprising since
*it only was approved by the IEEE in December of 1989 and X3 in February
*of 1990. The standard is due to be published by the IEEE sometime
*soon.
*...
*There are some popular features (namely object oriented support
*and exception handling) that are missing from the Extended Pascal
*standard. The committee is aware of the need for these features,
*but didn't get them finished for the standard. The committee expects
*to release technical reports in the coming year on both of these
*areas.
The standard addresses many of the extensions found in MPW and THINK
Pascal, such as units, although the syntax and semantics differs (modules
in Extended Pascal).
I would be interested in hearing if Apple or Symantec has a position on
the new standard; or, if not, whether any Apple or Symantec employees
would like to offer their opinions. In particular, I would like to know
(hear speculation) if it is likely that Apple or Symantec will produce
Extended Pascal conforming compilers (assuming that such issues as object
oriented support are addressed).
Herb Poppe NCAR
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