[Info-vax] Pascal question

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/21/19 1:07 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/21/2019 12:00 PM, John Reagan wrote:
>> On Monday, January 21, 2019 at 11:40:02 AM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 1/21/2019 11:19 AM, Emilio Moreno wrote:
>>>> Here is another one. upcase
>>>
>>> Weird. I don't seem to be able to find anything better
>>> than:
> 
>> str$upcase is about the best you'll get from Pascal.
> 
> Maybe it was time to add 25-50 convenience functions to
> VMS Pascal?
> 
> People expect more today. And adding them would show some
> progress. And the effort should not be that big aka low hanging
> fruit.

Maybe it's just me but that's trivial to write a function
for in Pascal.  It was one of the common student assignments
back when Pascal was the introductory language for the CS
Course of study.

bill