Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!qucdn!boydj
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Saturday, 11 May 1991 13:24:35 EDT
From: Jeff Boyd <BOYDJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Message-ID: <91131.132436BOYDJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.org.acm
Subject: Re: Turbo the standard? I think not.


String support is not exactly a wonderful improvement to Pascal. It may
make some programming easier (and it has at times for me), but using an
'[packed] array of char' is a better discipline. TP does *NOT* treat
strings in a disciplined manner when they are passed to procedures.