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From: Gale Paeper
Subject: Units and --uscd-pascal
Date: 5 Aug 2003, 01:26:34

Adriaan van Os wrote:
> 
> Gale Paeper wrote:
> 
> > Emil Jerabek wrote:
> >>
> >> Before you start worrying about supporting this feature: I've never
> >> worked
> >> with Macs, I was just inferring from the description of `Interactive'
> >> posted by Adriaan.
> >
> > Just to clear up a potential misunderstanding - Adriaan's postings in
> > this thread is discussing the Apple UCSD Pascal compiler for the Apple
> > II line of computers.  For the Macintosh line of computers, a different
> > Apple Pascal compiler (MPW Pascal) was used.  Although the MPW Pascal
> > language dialect supported some legacy Apple UCSD Pascal features, all
> > but one of the 17 Apple UCSD Pascal items Adriaan posted a while back
> > were pretty much completely unsupported.  (The one that unaltered
> > support continued on was the standard Pascal Page procedure.)
[snip]
> 
> By the way, what is a "legacy" feature ?

I don't know about other folks, but the definition for legacy that I use
is the same one commonly found in English language dictionaries.  A
legacy feature is nothing more than a feature which was also present in
a previous generation.

> Who issues the verdict and on
> what grounds ? Common opinion ? 

No opinion involved.  Assuming, of course, there is sufficient factual
evidence available to determine when the feature first occurred and what
the ancestory relationship is.

> Some people, mostly not those with much
> technical skill, refer to Pascal itself as a "legacy" language ... We
> have to judge features, algorithms languages and design in general on
> merits, not on prejudice.

Just because some folks always use legacy as a negative epithet doesn't
mean it always is a negative epithet.  Unless the nuances of context
indictates it is being used in a negative epithetical sense, the word
legacy describes nothing more than an ancestral relationship.

Gale Paeper
gpaeper@empirenet.com

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