> On Jan 4, 2024, at 11:08 PM, Paul Berger via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > Pascal did not have strings originally, but it is a common "enhancement". I > recall 40 years ago setting out to write a program to create a data file > using the S/370 ANSI Pascal compiler and it did not have strings. Sounds like ALGOL 60, which suffered from similar problems. (Also no standardized I/O.) That was one issue ALGOL 68 corrected. paul
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