Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 27. Sep 2024, 02:39:15
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:52:10 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
I thought that was one of the VAX’s strong points. Common runtime for
all language and calling sequences explicitly spelled out.
Yes it was, and for languages like Fortran or Pascal, DEC added special
extensions to make it easier for them to interoperate in this way. Seems
like they didn’t bother with that for their C compiler -- I suppose they
figured C programmers didn’t need hand holding ...