[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Michael Kraemer wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj schrieb:
> 
>> And besides Fortran 77 is not that bad. CHARACTER is fine. Fortran 66
>> would be painful.
> 
> F77 can be almost as painful for text stuff because
> IIRC the standard does not provide for dynamically allocated
> character strings.
> 

It doesn't dynamically allocate anything at all.  At least it didn't the 
last time I used Fortran.  Dynamic memory allocation is a "C" thing. 
IMHO it's a useless hangover on a virtual memory system.  On machines 
with small address spaces it can be a life saver.  These days PCs 
support 4GB of RAM and 12 bit or 16 bit machines are mostly antiques.

"Pocket" computers may still need to worry about it.