[Info-vax] Fortran

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/5/18 12:40 PM, abrsvc wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 12:15:31 PM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [regarding FORMAT H]
>>>
>>> Once again, matter of opinion.  I (and I am sure most experienced
>>> Fortran programmers) don't find them all that difficult.
>>
>> Come on.  How many times over the years have you miscounted the field
>> length?
>> --scott
> 
> 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.

A TAB is one character ^I, OCTAL 011, DECIMAL 11, HEX 0B.  One
character.  Never to be confused with that a display device like
a terminal or printer does with it.

> 
> I for one, am glad that the Hollerith style is going away.

I just don't see any reason to break existing programs for no
particular reason.

bill