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From: dwd@sfsup.UUCP (D.W.Dougherty)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Microsoft Pascal : Why does it still exist ?
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Date: 2 Feb 89 15:42:35 GMT
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While I am a big fan of Borland's compilation tools, especially Turbo
Pascal, I really like some of the things that Microsoft did with their
Pascal compiler.  Borland has make lots of useful extensions to the
language, but they have overlooked what I believe are the two most 
obvious extensions:

	1) allowing functions to return user defined types
	2) functions and procedures as parameters to other
		functions or procedures

Of course, MS has done some pretty nasty things with their compiler;
i.e., let's map identifiers to all upper-case (*WHY*)??