Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Rick Engebretson wrote:
Many of the features turbo pascal introduced, that "vanilla" pascal lacked, are part of Ada95
I don't know Ada very well, but I doubt that. Especially the TP features are often characterized by type-unsafeness and similar issues. Since Ada's main goal is to be strongly typed and safe at runtime, I can't really imagine they added things such as unchecked type-casts, "absolute" variables, assembler statements and machine code inlines, low-level memory access (FillChar, Move), misusing constants as variables, confusion between pointers and arrays and sometimes single elements and arrays etc., to name just some of the most problematic ones.
Conformant arrays are a GPC addition to pascal.
Not at all. Conformant arrays are a feature of both Pascal standards (ISO 7185 and 10206) at "level 1". Some other compilers don't implement them, though.
Frank
I don't believe Ada was ever intended as a general purpose, commercial, programming language. But the pascal syntax, and the evolution of new capabilities closely resembles the dos pc product "turbopascal." That was all I was trying to say.
Further, before GPC, pascal conformant arrays were not available to me AFAIK.
Rick.