From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!gatel-ffm!gatel-ffm!newsfeed.vmunix.org!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:27:36 +0200 Organization: AdaCL Message-ID: <1685473.0RyZyhZ3At@linux1.krischik.com> References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> <1g5v98l6p9j6.omv7rea0j13k.dlg@40tude.net> <873c2ktjpj.fsf@insalien.org> Reply-To: krischik@users.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1093882269 05 2170 1AgDXwcOY2zSSTNy 040830 16:11:09 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: E6hmVgZrQeGqZ4syV0ytCBaHwDgGI3ZqLoTbNb66MMXoa1GoiO24su User-Agent: KNode/0.7.7 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3168 Date: 2004-08-30T17:27:36+02:00 List-Id: Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote: > Larry Kilgallen wrote: > >> For the Pascal case, _every_ Pascal seemed to have extensions, since >> real world applications have greater needs than the original >> teaching mission of Pascal. > > Yes. > > But I was quite disappointed when I noticed that Borland didn't even > implement all of Pascal in their "Pascal" compiler. The one thing I > still can remember was missing is returning record types from > functions. The full ISO standart also has indefinate arrays with some kind of 'first and 'last mechanism. Isn't there in TurboPascal either. With Regards Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net http://www.ada.krischik.com