Richard Engebretson:
> Many of these issues are why the US DOD developed the Ada programming
> language. Ada is often considered a superset of Pascal. But I think Ada
> and Pascal evolved together from 1983 to now.
Indeed until the 1995 version, Ada was not anymore a superset of some
Pascal
dialects due to its lack of built-in object-oriented features (but having
already exceptions, multitasking and genericity (high-level templates)).
It regained its superset status since then.
The big difference is that the versions of Ada stand on a single line
1983 -> 1995 -> 2005; whereas versions of Pascal build a thick graph.
One can like the Ada situation or the Pascal one. Probably, if you make a
compiler, it is easier to create "your" Pascal extensions; if you are on
the
user side and especially need to maintain and ****t code, you'll prefer
standards - but then, rather rich and useful ones.
> Now, I'm glad there are
> people still insisting on conformity to older pascal standards. And I'm
> glad there are still excellent pascal choices.
>
> Learning never stops. It takes a long time to appreciate modern, high
> level, compiled computer languages.
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