Why isn IP Pascal compatible with Turbo/Borland/Dephi/Kylix Pascal ?
A. IP Pascal was designed to follow the original Pascal standard since 1980, following Niklaus Wirth’s “The Pascal User Manual and report” [Jensen and Wirth] from 1974. In 1983, the ISO 7185 standard was released, and the minor changes to J&W Pascal were implemented in IP Pascal. Unfortunately, none of the Borland products followed either the “User Manual and Report” nor the ISO 7185 Pascal standard, even though it preceeded Borland implementations by a decade. Borland products have a large user base, and we respect that, and hope to provide tools to convert user’s Borland compatible products to IP Pascal for interoperation. For IP Pascal to have been compatible with Borland products, considerable changes away from standard Pascal would have been required. Also, since there is no official published Borland language standard, there would be no way to guarantee perfect compatibility with Borland products. Finally, IP Pascal is directed at a long term standard implementation. Borland prod
