one large array in Pascal
Dennis Cohen
drc at claris.UUCP
Tue Aug 30 00:36:34 AEST 1988
In article <3868 at psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> schwartz at gondor.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) writes:
>In article <1268 at mcgill-vision.UUCP> der Mouse writes:
>>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.
Wasn't TeX originally written is SAIL? I seem to remember some reference to
it in the Pascal sources that I saw many years ago at JPL (gads, that seems
like a lifetime ago -- working on Univac 1100s, IBM 3032s, ModComps and VAXen).
Dennis Cohen
Claris Corp.
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