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From: keesan@bbncca.ARPA (Morris M. Keesan)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Pascal typing
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Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 11:10:12 EST
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    I just couldn't let this piece of USA centrism go by unchallenged.
    In article <20456@lanl.ARPA>, J. Giles (jlg@lanl.ARPA) says,

> . . .  Pascal is a language that is described in the book
> "PASCAL User Manual and Report" by Jensen and Wirth.  If a feature or
> capability is not in this book then it's not in the language.  
> . . .
> . . . - 'the most recent version' of Pascal is not ISO
> Pascal.  The most recent version is whatever someone has recently written
> that he has decided to call 'Pascal'. . . 
> . . .  I think ANSI has a standards committee
> working on Pascal.  If this committee succeeds - then there will be a
> 'Standard Pascal' which will be the appropriate version for net.lang to
> discuss.

Say what?  Something defined by the International Standards Organization (ISO)
is not a standard, but something defined by the American National Standards
Institute (ANSI) will be?  Perhaps if net.lang were usa.lang the above
statement might hold some water, but in a newsgroup that jlg admits reaches
"as far afield as Amsterdam" (and, I might add, even farther, e.g. Australia)
this kind of assertion is astounding.
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			    Morris M. Keesan
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