[Info-vax] Pascal question

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/21/19 4:09 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> 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.
> 

I guess you missed the smiley.  I was well aware that Pascal is
officially a dead language.  It was replaced by Modula, right?  :-)

bill