cdsmith@twu.net (Chris Smith) wrote:   
      
   >  Did you really just claim   
   > that Java has too FEW standard library routines, but Pascal is fine?   
      
    I think the point he his trying to make is that both Pascal and Basic   
   originated as languages to teach programming. Object Pascal as used in   
   Delphi can but does not have to be used for OO programming. The OO parts   
   are extensions to a more or less standard Pascal.   
      
    Ken Young   
      
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