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From: acm9@apple.ucsb.edu (Mike O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: standard pascal
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Date: 29 Jun 89 02:43:17 GMT
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In article <20139@adm.BRL.MIL> PETERSEN@ctrvx1.Vanderbilt.Edu (Chris Petersen - VUCC) writes:
>The fact that Turbo is the DE FACTO standard Pascal compiler for the MS-DOS
>world these days (at least it seems so) is no reason to say that it conforms
>to the standards for Pascal compilers!

You're answering the question "is there a version of Pascal on MS-DOS
compatible with UCSD pascal?" and I was answering "is there a Pascal
on MS-DOS considered the standard?"

Two different interpretations of the question make for two different
answers.  Good form there, Chris, resorting to a personal attack
("are you MAD?") because of a difference of interpretation.

Mike O'Brien