From mdeane@ANSI.org Wed Jul 18 15:54:35 2001 Received: from email1.ansi.org (mail.ansi.org [165.254.114.6] (may be forged)) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA77433 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:54:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mdeane@ANSI.org) Received: by email1.ansi.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <3KZ4Q24X>; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:54:31 -0400 Message-ID: <2F81C8110D55D411882A0020356797B21950C1@email1.ansi.org> From: Matthew Deane To: "'SC 22 Distribution List'" Subject: SC 22 N 3268 - Pascal Report to the SC 22 Plenary Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:54:29 -0400 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N3268 TITLE: Pascal Report to the SC 22 Plenary DATE ASSIGNED: 2001-07-18 SOURCE: Pascal Project Editor (T. Hetherington) BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Other document (Open) PROJECT NUMBER: 22.08, 22.19 STATUS: This report will be reviewed at the upcoming SC 22 Plenary. ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: DISTRIBUTION FORM: Open Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat Matt Deane ANSI 25 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036 Telephone: (212) 642-4992 Fax: (212) 840-2298 Email: mdeane@ansi.org ______________end of cover page, beginning of report___________________ Pascal Report to SC22 Plenary July 2001 The current versions of the Pascal and Extended Pascal standards are under maintenance within J9; no major development is contemplated. During the last year, ISO/IEC 7185:1990 Pascal (the simple language), was confirmed for a further five years. ISO/IEC 10206:1991 (Extended Pascal) is currently due for reconfirmation. All the people involved in the maintenance of this standard firmly believe that it should be reaffirmed for another five years. It is still used in various USENET newsgroups as a reference, and implementors of the language have found the definition as it stands to be very clear and complete; as a consequence there is not much pressure for revision. It should also be recorded that there continues to be interest in the Pascal Validation Suite, not only for its primary purpose of determining adherence to ISO/IEC 7185, but also viewed as a set of programs to explore many aspects of implementations that do not set out to conform. Tony Hetherington Project Editor