From rinehuls@access.digex.net Wed Jul 9 22:42:10 1997 Received: from access2.digex.net (qlrhmEbBUV1EY@access2.digex.net [205.197.245.193]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA12661 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 22:42:07 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access2.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA08867 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 16:42:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 16:41:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: SC22 N2501 - Pascal Project Editors Report for SC22 Plenary Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII __________________ beginning of title page __________________________ ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N2501 July 1997 TITLE: Pascal Project Editor's Report for the August 1997 JTC 1/SC22 Plenary SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 WORK ITEM: N/A STATUS: Please note that consideration of this Report will be handled under Agenda Item 9.2 at the August 1997 SC22 Plenary. CROSS REFERENCE: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Project Editor's Report ACTION: To SC22 Member Bodies for review. Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat William C. Rinehuls 8457 Rushing Creek Court Springfield, VA 22153 USA Tel: +1 (703) 912-9680 Fax: +1 (703) 912-2973 email: rinehuls@access.digex.net _______________end of title page; beginning of report ________________ Pascal Report to SC22 Plenary July 1997 There has not been any significant development of the Pascal standards during the past year, and the current versions are at present under maintenance only within X3J9. However, there have been implementation and promotion activities to further interest. Status of Standards: Project 22.08: The current standard is ISO/IEC 7185:1990, Information technology, Programming languages - Pascal. (That is, unextended Pascal.) This standard is very well established, and no further development is anticipated. Project 22.19: The current standard is ISO/IEC 10206:1991, Information technology, Programming languages - Extended Pascal. No development of this standard beyond clarification and minor correction is contemplated at present. Other matters: Discussions are proceeding with BSI (as holders of the copyright) concerning conditions under which the Pascal Validation Suite might be made more readily available to implementors and others interested in conformance to ISO/IEC 7185. A collection of Frequently Asked Questions concerning Pascal standards, and an "Introduction to Extended Pascal" have been posted to Web sites. There is also a newsgroup comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso. An implementation of ISO/IEC 10206 Extended Pascal (including the Object Oriented additions) is expected to be available for Windows NT/95 before the date of the SC22 Plenary. No SC22 actions relating to Pascal are requested at this time. Tony Hetherington Project Editor _______________________ end of document SC22 N2501 ______________________