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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request
Date: 19 Aug 2004 09:36:56 -0500
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In article <ril1gc.5g7.ln@skymaster>, Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:
> Ludovic Brenta a =E9crit :
> 
>> Back in 1989, I used to respect Borland for the quality of their
>> compilers.  But now, in hindsight, what you said changed my
>> perspective.
>>=20
> Nothing new here. Borland never obeyed by the standards. Turbo Pascal=20
> always had "extensions". And I remember playing with Turbo Prolog that=20
> was conformant to no other Prolog of the time.

For the Pascal case, _every_ Pascal seemed to have extensions,
since real world applications have greater needs than the
original teaching mission of Pascal.