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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: 10 Jul 89 09:25:22 GMT
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In article <2570@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM> rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson) writes:

>Well, lets start hyping it.  Anyone have a preview of the Standard that can
>be published on the net?  This sounds like it would make a great article
>for Computer Language.  How does it  compare to Modula 2 and to the new
>Turbo Pascal 5.5?  

Object-oriented features are not included.  I started designing such a
version but it was rejected very quickly by my object-oriented employer.

In my opinion it is better than Modula 2.  Type schemata are very
valuable.  Renaming is possible in module interfaces (export/import
clauses).  The original Pascal file I/O, plus string pseudo-I/O, plus
reading a line into a string target, are all included; this is more
friendly than Modula 2.

My impression is that a preview *was* posted to the net.  It certainly
was published in Sigplan Notices.  I will e-mail to the author of that
article and ask him to post it again to Usenet.

--
Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.jp@relay.cs.net)
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