[Info-vax] Pascal question

[John Reagan]

On Monday, January 21, 2019 at 4:05:51 PM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 1/21/19 3:41 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> So push the Pascal Standards Committee to add it.  :-)
> 
> Sorry, that is such a trivial task I can't imagine why the
> question was even asked.
> 
> bill

ISO/IEEE disbanded the committee years ago.  BTW, I was the secretary.