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| From | Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.programming |
| Subject | Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? |
| Date | 2019-08-03 09:33 +0100 |
| Organization | Fix this later |
| Message-ID | <qi3gsk$vgq$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <qi1fvh$2of$1@news.albasani.net> |
On 02/08/2019 15:05, Peter Percival wrote: > Does ISO 7185 Pascal require program source to be just one file? I'll take Ben's word for that. > And if > it does, doesn't that make it an utterly useless language? No, of course not. ISO 7185, as far as I can make out, dates back to 1983. So, even though Pascal has been an "utterly useless language" ever since that date, it didn't stop the later development of commercial Pascal variants, and the existence of the standard means that people moving from one variant to another (eg after a job switch) can at least hit the ground running, even if they are not completely familiar with the new variant. -- Richard Heathfield Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999 Sig line 4 vacant - apply within
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Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-02 15:05 +0100
Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2019-08-02 15:57 +0000
Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-02 17:55 +0100
Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-08-02 23:07 +0100
Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-03 15:58 +0100
Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-08-06 15:57 +0100
Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2019-08-06 16:55 +0000
Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-07 14:33 +0100
Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-03 14:58 +0100
Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2019-08-02 16:56 -0700
Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2019-08-03 09:33 +0100
Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-08-06 06:43 -0700
Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-07 15:13 +0100
Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-09-02 20:38 +0100
Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2019-09-02 16:02 -0500
Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-09-04 16:15 +0100
Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2019-09-06 19:28 +0100
Re: Is Pascal utterly useless? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-09-08 15:12 +0100
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