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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 01:39:15 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:52:10 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

> I thought that was one of the VAX’s strong points. Common runtime for
> all language and calling sequences explicitly spelled out.

Yes it was, and for languages like Fortran or Pascal, DEC added special 
extensions to make it easier for them to interoperate in this way. Seems 
like they didn’t bother with that for their C compiler -- I suppose they 
figured C programmers didn’t need hand holding ...