[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested
Bob Koehler
koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org
Mon Nov 16 08:24:25 EST 2009
In article <lvmdnQ1F54yJxZzWnZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>
> In Fortran you learned to live without dynamic memory allocation! It
> may be available in Fortran *now* but back in 1969--1994 memory
> allocation in Fortran was static. For most of that period, your input
> was via 80 column punched cards.
And back in the '60s you were told to use no more than 600K, so you
overlaid your program as heavily as you could.
Virtual memory was a thing of the future.
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