Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 22:06:07 -0500, c186282 wrote:

On 3/3/25 2:19 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 15:24:04 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

On 03/03/2025 10:05, Niklas Karlsson wrote:

Some would probably get on your case for being profligate with
vertical space... but honestly, it doesn't much matter with the kind
of screen real estate we have these days. I do agree that your style
has readability benefits.

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Yes. Back in the day when I debugged with 80 column dot matrix
printouts, it got messy.
To day with collapsible blocks on a gui it's a lot easier

 
I still prefer statements that don't exceed 80 columns.

 
   Wise. Not only doesn't fit a standard terminal but it's harder to get
   the gist if the line runs off the screen. Run into this editing with
   nano kinda often alas.

It's for Python but I agree with most of PEP 8.  Black or ruff do a nice
job of reformatting .py files if I get sloppy.

I use nano very rarely. One of the first things I do on any machine is
install Vim, preferable gVim. I rarely use the menus or graphic features
of gVim but I like not losing the terminal.