[Info-vax] DEC Basic and dynamic memory ?

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Sun Jan 30 18:59:18 EST 2022


On 1/30/2022 6:54 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-01-29, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> 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.

Ugly or just unfamiliar?

Arne




More information about the Info-vax mailing list