[Info-vax] Fortran

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Wed Dec 5 13:24:21 EST 2018


abrsvc  <dansabrservices at yahoo.com> wrote:
>Not so much of a problem when programs were on cards, but with terminals (and emulators), what is a TAB?  1 character or some depending on where you enter the TAB.  This is where many of the counts are wrong.
>
>I for one, am glad that the Hollerith style is going away.

It -went- away back in the 1970s.   Any code now running using format H is
very, very, very old.

I am strongly against breaking existing software as much as possible, but
if you have code that is THAT old, it's probably overdue for a walkthrough
and clean up anyway.
--scott

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