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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:27:31 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:34:51 -0700, John Ames wrote:

> That's a marvelous description, although it fails to really capture the
> perversity of things like array-size-as-type-distinction; when a man
> introduces language features that practically every single third-party
> implementor has to provide their own workaround for ...

You realize ISO Pascal provided conformant array arguments for this 
purpose?

Also, you realize that Wirth did not see Pascal as the last word in 
programming languages? That he went on to create others that solved this 
and other problems in nicer ways? That the fact that the rest of the world 
remained fixated on Pascal for some reason, was not really his problem?