11 Apr
2017
11 Apr
'17
10:29 a.m.
On 04/11/2017 10:05 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
Back then it would have seemed a reasonable assumption that high
level, strongly typed, languages would continue to flourish. If you
assume Algol or Pascal or Ada, a machine like the 432 (or like the
Burroughs 5500 and its descendants) makes perfect sense.
This has me wondering about how the 432 people implemented FORTRAN.
Between parameter-passing-by-reference, EQUIVALENCE and COMMON, one can
be pretty cavalier about data types and addressing. Yet most FORTRANs
of the time did not implement pointers.
--Chuck