🚀 go-pugleaf

> Of course this is by no means the only problem with Pascal's I/O.  Other
> major ones include:
>   - no random access
>   - 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.  
>   - no I/O of enumerated types (nor input of Booleans)
>   - 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.
> I have never seen a program that I needed to write that could be written
> in standard Pascal.

  If there is a way in standard Pascal to APPEND to a file, (without
copying out its contents, wiping out the file, and putting them back in
before the appending), it must be a closely kept secret.

				Alexis Dimitriadis
				alexis @ reed