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From: ags@s.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Microsoft Pascal : Why does it still exist ?
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Date: 3 Feb 89 15:08:31 GMT
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In article <4741@sfsup.UUCP> dwd@/guestc/dwdUUCP (xt1121-D.W.Dougherty) writes:
>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

That is indeed an extension that is worth having.

>	2) functions and procedures as parameters to other
>		functions or procedures

That is not an extension; it is a part of standard Pascal.  Any compiler
that doesn't have it is not Pascal.  (Yes, that means TP is not Pascal.)

-- 
Dave Seaman	  					
ags@j.cc.purdue.edu