... an if statement before the loop to stop it from even executing the first time. FORTRAN also introduced the character storage variable. Before this, all characters were stored within an integer variable or as a number (Ritchie 2). The next computer language developed was BCPL, or Basic Combined Programming Language. BCPL was not a descendent of FORTRAN but was part of the history of ... ...

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... not an object-oriented one, its semantics should be further expanded in a way that the object-oriented concepts could be included. Each database system comes with a set of predefined types (integer, real, char, string). This set should be extensible i.e. the user should be able to define his/her own types and treat them in the same way he/she treats the ... ...

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