[Info-vax] Coding style in the VMS's

Lawrence D’Oliveiro lawrencedo99 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 30 20:40:52 EDT 2021


On Friday, October 1, 2021 at 1:12:25 AM UTC+13, Simon Clubley wrote:
> That wasn't Pascal Bill. :-) That was FORTRAN IV code using 
> Pascal syntax. :-)

All together now ...

*Real Programmers Can Write FORTRAN In Any Language!*

Really, though, as a sometime Pascal fan, all those redundant parentheses made me twitch. Yes, its simplified* operator precedence rules did require a fair few parentheses in places, but not where that program used them.

*Not to say limited



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