Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!watstat!dmurdoch
From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Runtime dimensioning and Pascal
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Date: 11 Nov 89 19:43:15 GMT
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In article <9686@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu> LUKRW@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu writes:
>  I do wish Borland would "get with the program" and stop
>ignoring the standard.  Extensions are nice, but compatibility beats
>that any day of the week.  There's no good excuse for an incomplete
>implementation in such a widely used product.

I think you gave the excuse in your last 5 words - TP is selling well enough
without compatibility, so why should they bother with the standard?  I doubt
very much it would increase sales detectably.

Duncan Murdoch