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From: mccalpin@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (John D Mccalpin)
Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis,comp.lang.pascal,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: languages for number crunching
Summary: Extended Pascal
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Date: 13 Mar 90 16:52:03 GMT
References: <51475@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <18101@duke.cs.duke.edu> <780@s5.Morgan.COM>
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In article <18101@duke.cs.duke.edu>, hsg@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Henry Greenside) writes:
>It continues to be frustrating that the ANSI C committees do not listen
>to the needs of scientists: no complex, no power notation (**), no
>conformant arrays.

In article <780@s5.Morgan.COM> amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt) writes:
>Try the dPANS for Extended Pascal on for size. The new language
>has variable size arrays, complex numbers, and separate compilation.
	[...]
>2. Is there some good reason why people are not more interested
>in this language in the US? A good Extended Pascal compiler for
>UNIX would be just the thing.

Well if my experience is typical, then the reason that there is not
more interest in the US is that lots of us have *never heard of it*!

Where does one get information on such critters?  
	Documentation?
	Reviews?
	Comparisons with Pascal/Modula-2/Modula-3?

>The GNU pascal project had adopted this standard for it's language, but
>that project got stalled a little while ago.

Did it get stalled for technical details or lack of resources?
Who has been working on this?

>If anybody's got news of a UNIX compiler for Extended Pascal let me know.
>Andrew Mullhaupt

And please post the info to the net!
Perhaps it is not too late for Pascal to make a comeback in the
scientific computing fields....
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