Re: Are Associative Arrays unique to Perl?

hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker)
25 Oct 1996 22:11:31 -0400

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From: hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.misc,comp.compilers
Date: 25 Oct 1996 22:11:31 -0400
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References: <5437ev$30u@shell1.aimnet.com> <545mqn$qul@picasso.op.net> 96-10-099 96-10-109
Keywords: Fortran, history, comment

I seem to recall that a version of pdp-8 _Fortran_ implemented arrays
as associative objects -- i.e., 'dimension' statements were ignored!
[Hmmn, are you sure that wasn't Focal? Actually, I dimly recall the same
thing, RAM was so tight that they made all arrays sparse. -John]
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