Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpclisp!hpclscu!shankar From: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal Subject: Re: "standard" pascal Message-ID: <950030@hpclscu.HP.COM> Date: 10 Jul 89 01:21:29 GMT References: Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab Lines: 18 > It seems more logical to me to teach the industry standard. Look at > the C language; ansi defined a standard in 1986 (?) and our site still > doesn't have a system that supports it (gcc does, I believe, but that > is about it.) (a) The ANSI C standard has yet to be published. The "final" draft went up to X3 earlier this year (1989), but is being kicked around in a game of procedural football. Expect it out there "real soon". (b) Many of the compilers out there have most of the features of ANSI C, including function prototypes. GCC is only one of them. Of course, few compilers can claim to be fully "ANSI-compliant" at this point (and not just because of (a) - there are really very few standard validation suites at this point), but you can be sure that in a year or two, most of the serious C compilers out there will be standards- compliant. ---- Shankar Unni. shankar@hpda.hp.com