Varieties of Arrays

In some languages, size of an array should be established once and for all at program design time and can't change during execution. Such arrays are known as static arrays. A chunk of memory big enough to hold all the values in the array is allocated when array is created, and thereafter elements are accessed using the fixed base location of the array. Static arrays are the fundamental array type in most older procedural languages, like Fortran, Basic, and C, and in many newer object-oriented languages as well, such as Java.