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From: rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Pascal dying out?
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Date: 15 Nov 88 05:10:07 GMT
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In-reply-to: burton@ssc-vax.UUCP's message of 13 Nov 88 20:39:37 GMT

In article <2365@ssc-vax.uucp>, Mike Burton (burton@ssc-vax.uucp) writes:
>                             I see this talk about extended PASCAL,
>but it appears as though someone took PASCAL, added maybe 60% of the
>features that can already be found in Ada, and proposed extended
>PASCAL.  If Ada has most of these features already, why bother
>reviving PASCAL?  

For one thing, it's nearly impossible to put Ada on a micro.  Things
like tasking, etc., just are *very* hard to do (I know of one
implementation on a 386 machine w/16MB of memory, but that's it).
  Extended Pascal is an attempt to add useful features to Pascal
without making it too inefficient on small machines (or even big
machines, for that matter).  At least, that's my understanding.
(Personally, the only useful Ada systems I've worked with cost
$50,000+ and need a VAX to run--I stick with Pascal for the rest!).
  Just my thoughts....

		Anton

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