[Info-vax] DEC Basic and dynamic memory ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-01-30, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> 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?
>

Ugly because of all the tree management stuff you have to do for
yourself that you get for free in C or Pascal.

In addition, there's the overhead of copying the tree everytime
you run out of allocated spare space and need to extend it.

Simon.

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