>Aye that is the question.
>Whether it be nobler in the minds of men
> to sub-proc the strings and arrays of outrageous FORTRAN ...

errr aaahh ... "outrageous FORTRAN Seventy Seven" - before that FORmula TRANsmission strings were little more than character arrays - all alone - locked in a loveless, unsatisfying relation with some nameless subscript.