[Info-vax] BASIC (was Re: 64-bit)

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:09:12 -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:

> I was traumatized in my youth by some whitespace in column 72 of a
> Fortran program that prevented it from compiling ...

I wonder how that worked, given that Fortran was one language that would 
happily *ignore* whitespace in the middle of identifiers and syntax words.

(Notice I said “syntax words”, not “reserved words”, since Fortran had no 
reserved words.)