Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:26:09 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2024-09-28, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

I think still does. You wouldn’t want to print too long a name on a
check, for instance, just because your system allows it and some
literal clerk just types in what they see.

 
At a PPOE, my job title was "Programmer-Analyst".  When squashed into
the 15-character field allocated for it in our payroll system, it became

With proportional fonts and a decent graphics/typography API, you can
apply nonuniform scaling to the text--reduce the width without reducing
the height. This gives you some leeway to squeeze in a little bit more
text, rather than forcing hard truncation.