On 04/11/2017 10:05 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > > Back then it would have seemed a reasonable assumption that high > level, strongly typed, languages would continue to flourish. If you > assume Algol or Pascal or Ada, a machine like the 432 (or like the > Burroughs 5500 and its descendants) makes perfect sense.
This has me wondering about how the 432 people implemented FORTRAN. Between parameter-passing-by-reference, EQUIVALENCE and COMMON, one can be pretty cavalier about data types and addressing. Yet most FORTRANs of the time did not implement pointers. --Chuck
