On 04/10/2006, at 12:38 PM, Guyren Howe wrote:
One particular stricture that C introduced that everyone now thinks
is perfectly natural is that transferring control from method to
method should be via a stack.
nope, C didn't introduce it. I'm not sure if Algol or FORTRAN use of
the stack came first but they certainly predated C by a decade.
Forth came into being around 1963 (good year!) and made use of the
return stack for flow control (as well as a data stack).
Stacks were, I think, already managed in hardware at that point.
Andy the Pedant
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