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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.org.acm
Subject: Re: Turbo the standard?  I think not.
Message-ID: <1991May8.193150.5050@uwasa.fi>
Date: 8 May 91 19:31:50 GMT
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In article <1497@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> shack@cs.arizona.edu (David Shackelford) writes:
>In article <?.bGejk$1@cs.psu.edu> hvozda@mirkwood.endor.cs.psu.edu (Eric S Hvozda) writes:
>>
>>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) 
:

But which is more essential.  What the market decides (that is what
the users buy and use), or what some committee expounds that we
should want and use.  Standards are good when they bring sensible
harmonization, standards are bad when they stand in the way of
useful delopments.  I plead my CASE if you'll pardon the pun. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi
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