Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 28. Sep 2024, 01:30:46
Autres entêtes
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On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:43:33 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
On 2024-09-27, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:52:04 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
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Another thing PL/I got from COBOL is “natural” string handling. Assign
a short string to a larger any the result is automatically
blank-padded.
>
That kind of misfeature is only needed in the sad world of non-dynamic,
fixed-length strings ...
Which for many of us was the only world that existed at the time.
Back in the days when BASIC was considered “advanced” ... ;)
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