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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN-like languages
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 07:26:57 +0100
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On 29/09/2024 05:26, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2024-09-28, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 28/09/2024 22:20, John Levine wrote:
>>
>>> C was in the sweet spot of being not all that great, but better than
>>> any of the plausible alternatives at the time.
>>>
>> As far as I was concerned it was heaven. Assembler but 10x faster to
>> actually write.
>> And the way it used local variables was magic. Very hard to use the
>> stack as a scractc pad in assembler - you have to keep track of so many
>> offsets
> 
> That's assuming your machine has a stack, which the IBM 360 didn't.
> 

Well there are probably other ways to implement a stack than having it 
built into a computer.
Like a having a general purpose register reserved for a stack pointer 
and manually creating push pop call and return as macros

I don't see how you can run any code that needs to do subroutines 
without some form of stack.

-- 
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, 
that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

Jonathan Swift.