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From: g_harrison@vger.nsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: VAX Pascal Formatter
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Date: 12 Oct 90 13:29:32 GMT
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	I am interested in a "VAX Pascal" (tm) Pretty-Printer (a.k.a. 
formtter).  I have received one written in GNU C indirectly from 
ECOAVU@ecostat.aau.dk called NICE.  

	If ECOAVU@ecostat.aau.dk is reading this, I really believe it's a 
good and well thought out program; however, NICE  seems to insist upon
semicolons before END statments and doesn't like SETs at all.  

	If anyone has any good source code for Pascal pretty-printers,
executable VAX Pascal pretty-printers, or "fixes" to NICE, please contact me.  
As a professor I'd like to "assume" that all my students would stick to a
particular style, but I have my hands full trying to help them figure out how
to implement algorithms and solve problems.

	(Off the record, since I write a lot of Pascal for systems stuff, I
often get lazy, AND I'm used to my Ada formatters.)

	George...

P.S.  	Note to DEC folks - why don't you include pretty printers with your
compilers?  I KNOW you can't possibly type all your stuff without their use!

P.P.S.	I [a.k.a. "We"] may even be willing to pay for such a pretty-printer.
(Keyword: 'may')

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