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Granted that Standard Pascal does not provide everything, prehaps a a more
realistic view of the world should be looked at :

>   - no random access

MOST pascals provide random access, and come to think of it, isn't the seek
procedure standard????

>   - no way to open a file with a specified name from with the program.
> 	reset(input,'foo') is an extension. It is not in the standard.  

I've NEVER seen a pascal that did not provide this feature... If yours doesn't,
then prehaps you have the wrong pascal... Don't complain about short comings
due to a bad choice on somebody's part. 

>   - no I/O of enumerated types (nor input of Booleans)

No argument here, just a comment :  HP's pascal that currently runs on both
their 1000, 3000 and 9000 machines (I'm not sure about the 3000...) DOES
provide this.  Oh Glory Be... How I love that one..  My understanding is
that they are or will be providing this on their micro's also, so prehaps
it will be on all IBM compatables before all is long.  Also, once one gets
going, it'll spread like wild fire... (Hopefully...)

>   - the representation of files other than text is not defined.  This
> 	means that you can't write records onto a tape and expect to
> 	read the tape on a different system.

No arguments, but a little common since should solve this problem...
Granted that sometimes common since doesn't apply in all cases...

> I have never seen a program that I needed to write that could be written
> in standard Pascal.

I've never SEEN a standard Pascal implementation.. Not Even HEARD of such
a thing... But then I'm young and ignorant too...


And finally, Isn't this a news group for Pascal???  Let's talk about
pascal and be nice people and help each other and all that other good
stuff my mommy taught me to do...  Lets talk Pascal, or as 
Monty Python put it...   Look on the bright side of life...

				Thanx
					<ras>

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