I agree with this standardization of the Object Pascal language being required. Not i has basically been Borland/Inprise's baby since the start with few real contesters. But with Borland seemingly wanting to take the language onto the .net platform and FPC being now a serious compiler more than able to stand up for itself its time to actually get an ISO standard on the core language and stop any one group taking the language away in whatever way they see fit.

Now dont get me wrong im not Borland bashing here, Delphi is great i cant fault it sept for the choice to go .net

But with this seemingly branch in borlands thinking and there sudden drop of Kylix on linux its now that a language standard is really required before borland take the Pascal language off into .net / avalon land forever and doom FPC or any other implementations of the object pascal language to struggling to keep up with any apparent whimsical changes that borland implement in future incarnations.