Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!mirkwood!hvozda From: hvozda@mirkwood.endor.cs.psu.edu (Eric S Hvozda) Newsgroups: comp.org.acm Subject: Turbo the standard? I think not. (was Re: Contests (was Re: Yet another posting...:))) Message-ID: Date: 7 May 91 19:23:12 GMT References: <1991May3.150303.22506@mcs.kent.edu> <6X3B-PB@xds13.ferranti.com> <1494@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Followup-To: comp.org.acm,comp.lang.pascal Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: mirkwood.endor.cs.psu.edu In article <1494@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> shack@cs.arizona.edu (David Shackelford) writes: >I have a decidedly PC-oriented viewpoint in this area. Turbo IS the >standard Pascal, IMHO. Other Pascals need to change to the Turbo way >of doing things. (With exception of machine-specifics). When I >program in "standard" Pascal I get completely lost because you can't >do ANYTHING in it! Turbo is NOT standard. Since when is a ELSE on a CASE statement standard? If one knows standard PASCAL, turbo is nothing. BTW, the type STRING(n) is not standard either. The standard way is PACKED ARRAY [1..x] OF string where string = PACKED ARRAY [1..n] OF CHAR; What is the reasoning behind saying that Turbo is the standard? Given it is used widely, but wide usage does not make a standard. -- Ack! esh101@psuvm.psu.edu ESH101@PSUVM hvozda@vivaldi.psu.edu hvozda@endor.cs.psu.edu DoD #0217