[Info-vax] DEC Basic and dynamic memory ?

[Dave Froble]

On 1/30/2022 7:09 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

Bullshit!  Just not true.


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