Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mstan!amull
From: amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: splitting comp.lang.pascal, Turbo Pascal
Message-ID: <444@s5.Morgan.COM>
Date: 14 Oct 89 02:52:46 GMT
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In article <1989Oct12.195937.18967@hellgate.utah.edu>, tjones%ug.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Thouis Jones) writes:
> 
> 	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. 

Uh ... which computer? The standards are intended to approach those
problems for which a machine and implementation independent solution
can be had. The standards are likely to be mute on those subjects,
(for example a vertical interrupt detector in an animation package)
which are not applicable in a uniform way across different machines.

> It's no longer possible to serve Pc's and Unix machines
> with the exact same language.  

Can I see a proof of this assertion or are we just not trying hard
enough to keep up with the hardware and operating systems? I know a
lot of C programmers who would not really accept your assertion.

> 
> >Let's keep Pascal beautiful!
> 
> 	Impossible. :-) 

                     (* sigh ... chacun a son gout *)

> 
> flames >& /dev/null

I have the luxury of not running UNIX at the moment so that's not
where the flames will go....      8^)

Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt