Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : tnp (at) *nospam* invalid.invalid (The Natural Philosopher)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 29. Sep 2024, 07:27:39
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On 29/09/2024 05:26, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
On 2024-09-28, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
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On 2024-09-27, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
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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.
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That kind of misfeature is only needed in the sad world of non-dynamic,
fixed-length strings ...
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Which for many of us was the only world that existed at the time.
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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
PROGRAMMER-ANAL.
I always felt this was appropriate.
We always called them ANAL PROGS
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Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo
Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo
