[Info-vax] DEC Basic and dynamic memory ?
Simon Clubley
clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Sun Jan 30 18:54:23 EST 2022
On 2022-01-29, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 1/29/2022 12:16 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>
>> Arne, I have difficulty following your code examples. Is it me, or you?
>
Well, Arne didn't use line numbers so that may be throwing you. :-)
> Probably me.
>
>:-)
>
> In this case Simon outlined a problem where Pascal and C are obvious
> languages and me with no Basic experience wrote some Basic code - that
> is almost ensure an "unsual style". Or to put it another way: I am
> (or was) a Fortran programmer and Fortran programmers can program
> in Fortran in any language. :-)
>
Thanks for the demo program Arne.
The approach you are forced to use in DEC Basic is way more ugly than
doing it in C or Pascal.
Simon.
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