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Re: Nostalgia

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From: Quadibloc
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 17:33
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On Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 5:56:53 AM UTC-7, J. Clarke wrote:

> You seem to have learned programming in the era in which "scope"
> actually existed.  When I learned, variables were usually global.

Back in the old days as I remember them, while variables 
were local to a given routine, subroutines were compiled 
separately, so variables weren't shared between them; one 
had to put them in COMMON blocks.

John Savard
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