2metre wrote:
> Scott Moore wrote:
>
>>> 3/ Does any publication exist that could accurately be described
>>> as 'J&W 1972'?
>>
>> Good question, do not know.
>>
> The only reason I asked is that you have mentionned J&W 1972 many
> times. I presume its a typo (that has unfortunately become an
> unintended habit) that refers to either J&W 1974 or Wirth's 'The
> Programming Language Pascal (Revised Edition) 1972'. In our
> earlier discussions it would have been useful to know which one
> you meant.
>
> Elsewhere I have come across a reference (suppled by N. Wirth) to
> a prelease version of the J&W 1974 publication that was available
> in 1973, but can't trace anything back to 1972.
I see no point whatsoever to these discussions, and especially to
the arguments. Pascal was a set of ideas, and some relatively
uncontrolled implementations until the standard appeared, circa
1981. That was the one and only definition of standard Pascal. A
later standard was created for Extended Pascal, that carefully
preserved standard Pascal compatibility.
That is the purpose of a standard - to standardize. It says that
if you write to this standard, your program will run on machines
where the compiler/runtime system meets this standard. If the
program needs a 3 GB file, and the disk system only holds 2 GB,
things will fail because of capacity, not standardization.
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