Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:26:54 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Because his theory that all spaces could be replaced with tabs, was not
applicable to padded string literals inside the code itself

I've worked with interfaces where the data fields are determined by the
character position in the string with spaces used to pad fields. It was
fun explaining to the support people configuring the queries that what
appeared to be an empty field had to be exactly 5 spaces or the whole
thing would be thrown off.