5 Jan
2024
5 Jan
'24
2:23 p.m.
On Jan 4, 2024, at 11:08 PM, Paul Berger via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Pascal did not have strings originally, but it is a common "enhancement". I
recall 40 years ago setting out to write a program to create a data file using the S/370
ANSI Pascal compiler and it did not have strings.
Sounds like ALGOL 60, which suffered from similar problems. (Also no standardized I/O.)
That was one issue ALGOL 68 corrected.
paul