So-Called Real Programmers and FORTRAN

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Mon May 6 08:38:06 2002

On Mon, 6 May 2002, Andreas Freiherr wrote:

> Not in the original standard (from N. Wirth, may you pronounce him by
> value or by reference or by whatever... ;-), so this must have been an
> extension from your compiler's manufacturer.

It was in UCSD Pascal (on an Apple ][).

Anyway, Pascal blows.

> Sellam Ismail wrote:
> > // What about the "uses" directive? I didn't program in Pascal a whole
> > // lot but I remember when I did need something like a graphics library
> > // I "use"d it.

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