CS301 Lecture No. 18 There is one important point to note that in this course, we are using C/C++ but the usage of stack is similar in most of the computer languages like FORTRAN and Java . The syntax we are using here is C++ specific, like we are sending a parameter by pointer using & sign. In Java, the native data types like int, float are passed by value and the objects are passed by reference. In FORTRAN, every parameter is passed by reference. In PASCAL, you can pass a parameter by value or by reference like C++. You might have heard of ALGOL, this language had provided another way of passing parameter called call by name. These kinds of topics are covered in subjects like Study of Computer Languages or Compiler’s Theory.
