Re:C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness
by mcguire on Friday August 18, 2023 @07:08PM
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FORTRAN didn't officially grow a program stack until FORTRAN 90 (?), although I'm told some of the earlier FORTRAN 77-era compilers supported it.
I remember meeting people who could not wrap their heads around the idea that function parameters weren't all passed by reference. The idea of recursion would have caused them to detonate.
I remember meeting people who could not wrap their heads around the idea that function parameters weren't all passed by reference. The idea of recursion would have caused them to detonate.