Ok now it has been some several years that the Pascal programming langauge has been ran along under the wing of Borland there is a standard set of Pascal that has been established long ago.

But wait? That was in 1990?! Was ist das :shock:

Then there was a new draft that came up in 1993.. oh goodie! But wait... never finalized... what the heck! :scratch:

ok... enough messing around are we going to finalize an up to date standard of the new Object Pascal language or not? Seriously, there are so many takes on the 'current language' that its not funny. And Borland has been pretty much doing what it wants with it for the past so many years. Luckily it has done it some great good, but as of late it seems that Borland's priorities are changing and from Delphi 4 on it's been insisting on calling it Delphi instead of using it's original name-sake Pascal.

So what do we do? How do we set the standard straight? Just go with Borland's version call it Object Pascal and be done with it? I don't think this is the solution. We should really get all the major Pascal developers and the fronteer engineers of the current incarnation of the language and lay down a descript and completed standardized set of the perposed Object Pascal langauge that is most popularly used in both Delphi, Kylix and Free Pascal leading edge compilers and set it right!


Here is a link to a listing of the Pascal language standards that have been settled on in such organizations. http://pascal-central.com/standards.html

The lastest being a draft of the precursor to the Object Pascal langauge we know now. Lets get this updated!