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From: reagan@hiyall.enet.dec.com (John R. Reagan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: New PASCAL Standard
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Date: 16 Oct 90 14:17:49 GMT
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In article <1990Oct15.173544.17534@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, cpshelley@violet.uwaterloo.ca (cameron shelley) writes...
> 
>  When did the new standard come into being?  I am aware of 'ANSI' Pascal
>being around already (such as Think Pascal on the Mac), is this another
>iteration?
> 

The Extended Pascal standard has been under construction since the previous
Pascal standard in 1983 was released.  Extended Pascal had two public
comments, the first being in 1986.  Announcements of the public comments
were printed in several well-known journals and several articles about
Extended Pascal have appeared in SIGPLAN notices.

I have posted the list of features from Extended Pascal's foreword in
this newsgroup before (haven't they made it to the newsgroup?)

Extended Pascal represents a major increase in functionality over
unextended ANSI Pascal.  Don't think of it as an iteration, but
a revolution.

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John Reagan
Digital Equipment Corporation
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