Re: Nostalgia

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From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:27

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Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
>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.

And indeed, there was never an era in which "scope" didn't
exist, unless one learned programming in the 1940s and early 1950's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL

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