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From: sbigham@dukeac.UUCP (Scott Bigham)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Pascal dying out?
Message-ID: <1071@dukeac.UUCP>
Date: 29 Oct 88 18:48:42 GMT
References: <267@lafcol.UUCP> <9631@swan.ulowell.edu> <6157@claris.com> <3884@omepd>
Reply-To: sbigham@dukeac.UUCP (Scott Bigham)
Organization: Academic Computing, Duke University, Durham, NC
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In article <3884@omepd> bobdi@omepd (Bob Dietrich) writes:
>...and Pascal
>is about to undergo such a change with Extended Pascal. Extended Pascal
>should offer enough of what users want (modularity, strings, random I/O,
>flexible arrays, standardization, etc.) that it should renew interest in
>the language...

So who's doing this?  Is this one of those ANSI committees, like the X3Jn
committees we hear so much about in comp.lang.{c,fortran}?  What is n for
Pascal?  Is there anyone out there on that committee, or anyone who knows
what's happening?  FILL US IN!

							sbigham

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