Re: What computer languages are standardised?


"Ed Prochak" <ed.prochak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Scott Moore wrote:
>> Paul F. Dietz wrote On 11/17/05 05:31,:
>>
>> > IMO, a standard becomes especially useful when it's embodied in a set
>> > of conformance tests. Such tests keep the implementors on the same
>> > page, and also help debug the standard ('did you *really* mean to
>> > require that behavior?')
>> >
>> > Paul
>>
>> Sure, thats a good one. Pascal had a huge suite of compliance tests
>> appear at the same time as its standards (both of them). In fact,
>> the Pascal compliance test may stand alone for a long time as
>> being one of the best that has ever appeared. It checked not only
>> what was in the standard, but checked for cases that should not
>> compile as well, and many other quality tests.
>
> Doesn't ADA have a standard compliance test suite? I'd expect it to be
> more extensive than one for PASCAL, but I do not know this to be a
> fact.

As does COBOL. The test is distributed by NIST, and it too contains both
tests programs which should compile and produce a certain result as well as
programs which are intentionally crafted so as to trigger specific compiler
error messages.

- Oliver


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