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Cobol upto and including the 85 Standard was stackless and heapless which is quite a cognitive divide. For those going to and coming from that language. I didn
by le-mark 3y ago
Cobol upto and including the 85 Standard was stackless and heapless which is quite a cognitive divide. For those going to and coming from that language.
I didn’t read Raymond say anything about security in the present article, but the advantages a clear. No stack or buffer overflow vulnerability for example.
- tedunangst 3y agoJust fixed size static buffers guaranteed to overflow.
- froh 3y agoI remember having to preallocate an array and do manual stack management there. the old hands told me to 'simply' use a disk if I needed the stack (or heap) to be larger. with the mainframe VM these could then be virtual in the 1980s/1990s, 'for performance' stackless Cobol really did fun things to brains on long term exposure.