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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
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On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 16:17:37 -0500, "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
declaimed the following:


>The difficulty of a compiler never was very relevant (it's *waaay* down a 
>list of requirements). Of course, you are essentially saying that separate 
>compilation is unnecessary and all of the source for a program should be in 
>one giant file (it's certainly easier to edit and find things that way).
>

	Visions of my college days -- Xerox Sigma 6 CP/V Extended FORTRAN IV.
We weren't even introduced to the concept of separate files (neither did
the COBOL class).

	Of course, the first FORTRAN compiler we were introduced to was FLAG
(FORTRAN Load And Go -- compile one source file, link it, and execute it
all in one operation). The single source file mode did make for long
listings of code, but simplified the linker pass: FORT <source>; LINK
<object>; <executable>


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