I 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) t

I 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.