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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Bob Butler writes on comp.lang.ada:
> I am not sure if that is true. It could be FreePascal does support the
> full standard (and there are indeed ISO standards to follow) but also
> OO and GUI addons. I think a lot of useful code could be written to
> the standard. It's just that many people want the OO support and the
> GUI stuff so they tend towards specific implementations. I think it's
> ill advised for businesses but indeed there are still some using
> Delphi believe it or not. Most of the Pascal written today outside
> Delphi is hobbyist stuff. FPC is actually a very nice
> implementation. It's not portable because nothing else is left, with
> or without a standard or two.

The fact that FreePascal supports some ISO or standards is relevant and
useful *if* it can reject non-compliant programs.    But in its list of
compiler options I see only:

  -M<x>  Set language mode to <x>  
      -Mfpc      Free Pascal dialect (default)  
      -Mobjfpc   FPC mode with Object Pascal support  
      -Mdelphi   Delphi 7 compatibility mode  
      -Mtp       TP/BP 7.0 compatibility mode  
      -Mmacpas   Macintosh Pascal dialects compatibility mode  

and no ISO 7185 or ISO 10206.

--
Ludovic Brenta.