[Info-vax] Pascal question

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/21/2019 1:53 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 1/21/2019 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.
> 
> Or, one can build a library  of often used capabilities ....

Of course.

But it would be better if the standard language runtime came
with such functionality instead of having hundreds of developers
each implement their own.

It is not like uppercasing is a very special function that
only very few need.

It is relative common.

And many other mostly newer languages certainly has it.

Arne