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From: ddb@mrvax.DEC (DAVID DYER-BENNET MRO1-2/L14 DTN 231-4076)
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Subject: ISO not as valid as ANSI (standards) ????!?!!
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Date: Thu, 31-Jan-85 17:52:40 EST
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>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.

>As for the second point - '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.

Why is ANSI (American National Standards Institute) any more authoritative
than ISO (International Standards Organization)?????

These comments come across as very provincial to me, or just plain
ignorant.

		-- David Dyer-Bennet
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