"Dennis Weldy" <nojunkmail@ever.com> writes:

>It is? Care to offer a bit of proof there?
>Standard Pascal was, last I looked woefully lacking in file handling.
>Strings were packed arrays of chars (much like C).

Then you didn't look at the current standard, ISO 10206, also known as
ISO Pascal Extended.

A programmer who knows only one programming language
is like a would-be author who has only read one book.

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John �neas Byron O'Keefe; 1921/02/04-1997/09/27; TLG,TLTA,BBTNOTL.
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