11 May
2005
11 May
'05
11:57 a.m.
On Wed, 11 May 2005, Paul Koning wrote:
Standard Algol 60 doesn't either -- it has string
constants but not
string variables. Those are a Burroughs extension, and PDP-8 Algol is
a Burroughs Extended Algol subset.
Yeah, strings are pretty new-fangled. Standardized character sets,
cheap memory, and human I/O devices are needed.
I'd forgotten (somehow) that FORTRAN IV didn't know strings until
I wrote a "more" program as an exercise on the Nova. Surprise!
FORTRAN V had 'em (as a hack job on integer arrays) so I used
that.