I thought this might interest some people because on the one hand it's a
significant part of the history of ALGOL-derived languages, and on the
other the implementation is deeply weird.
As some might recall, Burroughs had a range of Large System computers
from the 1960s through '80s which
Deeply weird is right!
I fondly remember the Burroughs series. I had to port a very large
FORTRAN system to it for our client, the Quaker Oats Company. They used
a set of these mainframes for their main systems.
I loved the idea of the descriptor-oriented architecture. Each file was
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Saunders, Rich wrote:
Deeply weird is right!
I fondly remember the Burroughs series. I had to port a very large
FORTRAN system to it for our client, the Quaker Oats Company. They used
a set of these mainframes for their main systems.
I loved the idea of the descriptor-oriented architecture.
