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From: diamond@diamond.csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: `EXTENDED' Pascal anyone??
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Date: 6 Jul 89 08:23:15 GMT
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In article <950028@hpclisp.HP.COM> chip@hpclisp.HP.COM (Chip Chapin) writes:

>I'd like to ask if any of you out there have any plans to use the new
>Extended Pascal Standard, now nearing completion by an IEEE/ANSI
>committee.  You know who you are.

I am not even in the audience for this question, for two reasons.
1, I'm on the committee; 2, I have yet to find an employer with the
maturity to be interested in this kind of thing.

Anyway, the reason your intended audience will not reply is that they
don't even know about it.  Vendors are not hyping this product so how
will potential customers even know?  People do know that the original
Pascal standard was so weak and restrictive that it was impractical,
and they don't know that a committee could/would design an industrial
strength successor.  Before reading an early draft of the new standard,
I was pretty skeptical too.  Then it blew me away.  (Then I was allowed
to participate in one meeting by accident, when two divisions of my
then-employer weren't speaking to each other.)

This language sure is worth hyping.

--
Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.jp@relay.cs.net)
 The above opinions are claimed by your machine's init process (pid 1), after
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