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Comment by pjmlp | original | Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)
[−]pjmlp · 2026-11-15 Sun 18:12 UTC · link
It certainly had a standard, two actually, however no one cared because Turbo Pascal was more relevant, and Modula-2 was designed to fix Pascal's shortcomings, which also has a ISO standard.

So it wasn't for lack of standard per se.