Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 30/09/2024 13:35, Waldek Hebisch wrote:

In my world blank padding is simply wrong result.

Hah. That reminds me of a project I once worked on.  The disk space was getting tight tos a nice liitle sysdamin write a script that removed all instances of IIRC 4 spaces in our code and replaced then with tabs.
Unfortunately my software was working on a digital oscilloscope whose underlying software did not know what to do with tabs, so all the on screen menus came out all over the place.
I had to manually reinsert all the spaces in the display strings
Because his theory that all spaces could be replaced with tabs, was not applicable to padded string literals inside the code itself
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