Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!mstan!amull
From: amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Array sizes in Pascal
Keywords: Implementations
Message-ID: <359@s5.Morgan.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 89 23:26:03 GMT
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co. NY, NY
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I am at heart a Pascal programmer, and I enjoy nothing so much as
my PC environments. But I have one complaint. (Really only one)
about this environment.

Limiting arrays to one segment 64K is tragic. I can't write much
without 'em. Never could stand the old 'fake it by dynamic allocation
gag', either, Pascal is a language which should facilitate full use
of the machine resources without recourse to grotesque "C" style
hocus-pocus. Pascal will never be much use to me until Borland
or Microsoft take off the handcuffs. And no 'huge' keyword, either,
please. Pascal is the language where the compiler knows how big
things are, right?

Is there an implementation without this failure?

Thanks
Andrew Mullhaupt