In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: > And still almost no one uses ISO/Extended Pascal anymore. Why? Possibly > because the de facto Pascal standards had already become Think Pascal on > the Mac and Turbo Pascal on the PC by then, and none of those > programmers wanted to rewrite all of their code (although Think Pascal > was a bit closer to ISO Pascal).
That's my opinion too. The succesful standards are either concerted efforts of the major stakeholders/vendors or simply legatimize the de facto situation. Standarization efforts that start out as "Let's invent a language" rarely pay off (as in: having multiple implementers). _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
