Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Multilevel standards Message-ID: <7055@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 09:44:39 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7055 Posted: Mon Jan 7 09:44:39 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 05:12:31 EST References: <4859@utzoo.UUCP> <11@mit-athena.ARPA> <177@gcc-opus.ARPA> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 8 So far as I know, every place that has used Pascal for significant systems programming has found it necessary to extend the language beyond standard Pascal in order to remedy some of the language's basic deficiencies. The biggest lossage in Pascal about which nothing can be done is that the type of an array includes its size. I would love to hear how someone was able to write an operating system in standard Pascal, if they did.