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From: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Microsoft Pascal : Why does it still exist ?
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Date: 3 Feb 89 14:33:16 GMT
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> Of course, MS has done some pretty nasty things with their compiler;
> i.e., let's map identifiers to all upper-case (*WHY*)??

Maybe it's because Pascal is not case-sensitive and other languages such as
C and Modula-2 are as are the linkers which support them.  Because of this
there needs to be some _consistent_ method of referencing procedures written
in other languages and thus support multi-language development.  Mapping
all Pascal procedure/function names to upper-case (or lower-case) seems an
altogether reasonable thing to do so that the linker may properly resolve
references to a procedure written in Pascal from a program written in C.
This "convention" is not uncommon.  The same thing is done by the MPW
product on the Macintosh.

Dennis Cohen
Claris Corp.
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