[Info-vax] COBOL example $MGBLSC
    Scott Dorsey 
    kludge at panix.com
       
    Sat Sep  9 15:08:02 EDT 2023
    
    
  
Johnny Billquist  <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>It is not purely about parsing, but about the definition of the 
>language. Fortran 77 explicitly considered whitespace in this context as 
>non-significant.
"Never put whitespace in equations because if you get in the habit of
doing that you'll use more continuation cards and cards are expensive."
   -- M. Newell
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
    
    
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