Pascal at Apple

Re:Pascal at Apple by WalterBright on Saturday July 22, 2017 @05:17AM (#14826179)

I discovered with C and C++ compilers, if an extension was added that was not in the Standard, nobody would use it - not even the people who requested the extension. It wasn't like the Pascal community, where nobody would use the compiler unless it had a boatload of extensions :-)

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Re:Pascal at Apple by pjmlp on Saturday July 22, 2017 @07:14AM (#14826583)

They tried to fix that with ISO Extended Pascal, but by then compatibility with Turbo Pascal extensions was more relevant.

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Re:Pascal at Apple by kkylin on Saturday July 22, 2017 @10:53AM (#14827492)

I think you're onto something (about C extensions). There was a time, before clang became default on osx, when Apple deprecated nested functions (and perhaps others) in their version of gcc, and afaik no one complained. So I may well be one of the very few. Oh well.

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