one large array in Pascal

[der Mouse]

In article <36174 at yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, lisper-bjorn at CS.YALE.EDU (Bjorn Lisper) writes:
> In article <20349 at watmath.waterloo.edu> atbowler at watmath.waterloo.edu (Alan T. Bowler [SDG]) writes:
>> A classic example are those Pascal programs that allocate 1 large
>> static linear array and then run their own memory allocator [...].
> Just a comment on this....this is the typical technique to implement
> pointers and dynamic memory handling in Fortran, [...].  Are "those
> Pascal programs" maybe translated Fortran programs?

I know of at least one which isn't: TeX.

Why did Knuth do it this way?  I can only guess; I would guess that
it's for some portability reason I am not aware of.

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