From: Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov   
      
   Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   > On 11/12/2024 4:01 PM, baf wrote:   
   >> On 11/12/2024 12:43 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>> If all of your general purpose subroutines and functions are in   
   >>>>>> modules, you don't need interfaces for them (one of the advantages   
   >>>>>> of modules).   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I have 6,000 subroutines in 5,000 files.  All I did was put   
   >>>>> interfaces for about 2,600 of the subroutines into a single module.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Lynn   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> A better alternative would be to put the subroutines in the module   
   >>>> and USE the module. Then you don't need the interfaces (the compiler   
   >>>> gets all of the interface information "automagically").   
   >>>   
   >>> 850,000 lines of code in a single file ?  That would be a mess.   
   >>>   
   >>> Lynn   
   >>>   
   >> I wasn't suggesting a single module. Partition the subprograms into   
   >> meaningful subgroups. Also, as was indicated, you can use submodules   
   >> to avoid cascading compilation issues with a large number of modules.   
   >   
   > My father and two other engineer profs started developing the software   
   > back in 1968 on a Univac 1108.  It had 32K words of data space and 32K   
   > words of code space.  To build large software, we had to manually   
   > partition the software ourselves so that it would fit into those 32K   
   > words of code space.  It was a major pain when somebody would update a   
   > subroutine and mess up the partition map.   
   >   
   > When I personally started working on the software in 1975, it was one of   
   > my jobs to update the huge partition map on the wall outside my bosses   
   > office.  I used the big computer sheets and taped them together, about a   
   > hundred or so of the sheets.   
   >   
   > Never again.   
   >   
   > Lynn   
   >   
      
   Were you using @FOR (Fielddata) or @FTN (Ascii)?   
   Things became much simpler when multiple Ibanks and addresses over 0200   
   000 became possible (for @ftn, @for was abandoned at some point).  I   
   think @ftn also permitted multiple Dbanks but I never used that, the   
   code generated was - by necessity - horrific.   
      
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