Infocom on PDP-11

[Tom Jennings]

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Paul Koning wrote:

> Standard Algol 60 doesn't either -- it has string constants but not
> string variables.  Those are a Burroughs extension, and PDP-8 Algol is
> a Burroughs Extended Algol subset.

Yeah, strings are pretty new-fangled. Standardized character sets,
cheap memory, and human I/O devices are needed.

I'd forgotten (somehow) that FORTRAN IV didn't know strings until
I wrote a "more" program as an exercise on the Nova. Surprise!
FORTRAN V had 'em (as a hack job on integer arrays) so I used
that.