Re: Pascal latest standard

John Reagan wrote:
> scott moore wrote:
>> john wrote:
>>
>>> Which is the latest Pascal ANSI/ISO standard? Any free compliant 
>>> implementations (I suppose gcc provides one)?
>>
>>
>> http://www.standardpascal.com
> 
> BTW, the Scott's sight heavily mentions ISO 7185, you can also find 
> copies of ISO 10206 (Extended Pascal) there as well if you dig around. 
> I'm not sure which one you really want.
> 
> The Extended Pascal standard was written as an evolution to the 
> "classic" Pascal standard.  The fact that ISO 7185 still even exists as 
> a standard was more of a political move than a technical one.
> 
> Personally, I wanted ISO 10206 to be called Pascal, not Extended Pascal.

> and to remove ISO 7185. We (well some of us) wanted to have "levels" in 
> the new standard such that compilers that conformed to the old standard 
> could fit into the new standard.  Others found that too confusing and 
> eventually went with multiple standards (which I find counter)


I think Pascal usage has pretty much been reduced to learning 
programming fundamentals, rather than writing nowadays professional 
software.