Re: The joy of FORTRAN

According to Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid>:

On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:22:54 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:
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COBOL had (has) very powerful data structures ...

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No pointers, no typedefs, no dynamic arrays, no array lower bounds other
than 1, no parametric types ...

It was 1960.  Fortran had arrays of numbers, COBOL had structures including
arrays of structures.  If your point is that we have figured stuff out in
the following 60 years, well, yes, we have.

I guess Algol60 had dynamic arrays but no structures which limited how
useful they were.  And the call-by-name mistake made implementation very
painful.


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