Comparison of Pascal and Delphi: Difference between revisions

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=== Modulo with negative dividend ===

Standard Pascal has ana Euclidean-like definition of the [[Modulo#In programming languages|<syntaxhighlight lang="pascal" inline>mod</syntaxhighlight> operator]] whereas Delphi uses a truncated definition.

=== Nested comments ===

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=== Temporary files ===

In Delphi any file must be backed by a file in the file system.

That means any <syntaxhighlight lang="delphi" inline>file</syntaxhighlight> needs to be associated with a file name with Delphi’sDelphi's <syntaxhighlight lang="delphi" inline>assign</syntaxhighlight> procedure.

In contrast, Standard Pascal is usable without file names.

The following will produce a run-time error with Delphi.<ref name="moore"/>

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== Further reading ==

* Kathleen Jansen and [[Niklaus Wirth]]: ''PASCAL - User Manual and Report.'' Springer-Verlag, 1974, 1985, 1991, {{ISBN|0-387-97649-3}}, {{ISBN|0-387-90144-2}}, and {{ISBN|3-540-90144-2}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20050314152247/http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/~wirth/books/Pascal/]

* Niklaus Wirth: ''The Programming Language Pascal.'' Acta Informatica, 1, (Jun 1971) 35-6335–63

* ISO/IEC 7185: ''Programming Languages - PASCAL.'' [http://www.moorecad.com/standardpascal/]

* Doug Cooper: ''Standard Pascal: User Reference Manual.'' W. W. Norton & Company, 1983, {{ISBN|0-393-30121-4}}, {{ISBN|978-0-393-30121-2}}

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