Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.misc alt.folklore.computersDate : 25. Sep 2024, 22:27:31
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On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:34:51 -0700, John Ames wrote:
That's a marvelous description, although it fails to really capture the
perversity of things like array-size-as-type-distinction; when a man
introduces language features that practically every single third-party
implementor has to provide their own workaround for ...
You realize ISO Pascal provided conformant array arguments for this
purpose?
Also, you realize that Wirth did not see Pascal as the last word in
programming languages? That he went on to create others that solved this
and other problems in nicer ways? That the fact that the rest of the world
remained fixated on Pascal for some reason, was not really his problem?