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From: soper@xenna.UUCP (Pete Soper,,,)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Strings in Pascal (was standard pascal)
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Date: 30 Jun 89 18:37:19 GMT
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From article <20155@adm.BRL.MIL>, by FINEBERG%WUMS.BITNET@uicvm.uic.edu:
> 
>   I would also highly recommend Oregon Software's Pascal-2.  I have been
> using their software for other systems and have found them extremely
> helpfull whenever I had questions or bugs to report.  I do however wonder
> what validation test they failed, I have always found that their compiler
> would handle every legal Pascal program as defined by Wirth & Jensen.  I
> even have been assuming that Pascal-2 is correct and I'd better be damn
> sure before I claimed they made a mistake when I run into problems.

    Keep in mind that validation suites are frequently not static. New,
more rigorous versions are put out. When a new comes out, it may trip up
up existing compilers which are then updated to tighten conformance.
    It would be a mistake to assume a compiler is perfect just because it
passes all the tests of a validation suite. The suites are usually
comprehensive, but are never close to comprehensive enough.
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