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From: tjones%ug.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Thouis Jones)
Subject: Re: splitting comp.lang.pascal, Turbo Pascal
Date: Thu, 12-Oct-89 19:59:37 MDT
Message-ID: <1989Oct12.195937.18967@hellgate.utah.edu>
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
References: <13380@reed.UUCP> <111@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <408@uwm.edu> <438@e-street.Morgan.COM>

In article <438@e-street.Morgan.COM> amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt) writes:
>In article <408@uwm.edu>, chad@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (D. Chadwick Gibbons) writes:
>> 	comp.lang.pascal doesn't have enough traffic to warrent a subgroup.
>> such a creation would be a waste.
>
[Long dissertation about how bad it would be to let Pascal split up deleted]

	I don't see how it is possible to stick to the standards of a
language and still serve all the needs that may exist on that
computer.  It's no longer possible to serve Pc's and Unix machines
with the exact same language.  There needs to be change between
computers.  Besides, if we all kept tot he standards, where would new
languages come from?  I grant that when there was a large change in a
computer a new language might spring up to use that change, but most
languages didn't start that way.

>Let's keep Pascal beautiful!

	Impossible. :-)

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