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From: john@genrad.UUCP (John Nelson)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: C Standard
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Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 20:20:28 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  6 20:20:28 1985
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In article <6919@watdaisy.UUCP> ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond) writes:
>Regarding the C language, the ORIGINAL version had certain rules for structure
>elements which have been scrapped and re-done.
>
>Obviously C programmers are NOT supposed to stick to the ORIGINAL.
>Why should Pascal programmers be told to stick to the ORIGINAL?

Because there is no widely accepted standard of what is CURRENT Pascal.
Every version of Pascal that I have seen has major syntax differences.
THERE IS NO ACCEPTED STANDARD.