From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!preece Newsgroups: net.lang.c Title: Re: Re: Re: Pure C example - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1293 Posted: Tue Jan 4 20:44:04 1983 Received: Wed Jan 5 02:29:57 1983 #R:ihnss:-117800:uicsl:6400001:000:241 uicsl!preece Jan 4 15:02:00 1983 Actually, real Dartmouth Basic (as of 1970, when i last used it) did in fact allow nested assignments. It also had multi-line DEFs, local variables, and the assumption that all DEFs are allowed recursion. And, of course, dynamic strings...