Re: Pascal latest standard

"john" <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:flit1p$1vpj$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> I am not sure there are millions of active Pascal developers out there 
> nowadays. AFAIK Delphi is pretty much dead along with the other Borland 
> products, mainly because of bad management I think.
>

Check CodeGear's (Delphi is now handled by a separate division of Borland)

financial statements if you want to distinguish truth from rumour.

> If there were millions of *active* Pascal programmers out there, there 
> would be much discussion in this group.
>

You're in the wrong newsgroup. As its title implies, this newsgroup is 
intended for discussions related to ANSI-ISO Standard aspects of Pascal so
I 
would not expect it to get much traffic as it is a very specialist
subject. 
Visit one or more of the Delphi newsgroups:

http://info.borland.com/newsgroups/ng_delphi.html

Typically there are several hundred messages per day. You'll receive much 
more feedback on these sorts of topics over there.

> In any case in Wikipedia 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_%28programming_language%29)
it is 
> mentioned:
>
> "Initially, Pascal was a language intended to teach students structured
programming ...

LOL! Who do you believe knows better about what Wirth intended Pascal to
be? 
Wirth or 'anon.'? Check the history of that Wikipedia page - you can't 
believe everything you read there - after all, I've written some of it ;-)

--
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/modula2