Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!6WwJuTv79bOEYPpDiWMV/Q.user.gioia.aioe.org.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Peter Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: Reading command line in Pascal Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 15:33:06 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <58b57a04-588e-4a77-afd2-34ef4ef27775n@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 6WwJuTv79bOEYPpDiWMV/Q.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.6 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:12488 Öö Tiib wrote: > On Sunday, 25 April 2021 at 15:47:04 UTC+3, Peter wrote: >> How, in standard Pascal (ISO/IEC 7185:1990), does one read the command line? > > One does not as that standard does not have concept of command line. Yet another example of the language's silliness! > In implementations of Pascal (like Turbo Pascal) there can be functions > (like paramStr and paramCount). If there are then one uses those functions. > Thank you. -- Just as 'beautiful' points the way for aesthetics and 'good' for ethics, so do words like 'true' for logic. All sciences have truth as their goal; but logic is also concerned with it in a quite different way: logic has much the same relation to truth as physics has to weight or heat. Frege in 'Thoughts' (Der Gedanke)