Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:36:50 -0700, John Ames wrote:

It's always struck me as funny that nobody *ever* seems to use the ASCII
control characters that already exist for record demarcation for that
purpose; aside from CR/LF/tab/NUL, and BEL/SUB/ESC in interactive-
terminal contexts, the whole 0x00-0x1F range might as well not exist.
Not that it'd be a conspicuously *good* idea, but I've always harbored
an impish desire to devise a format that makes use of the rest in some
way that maps relatively logically to the original intent/description...

We use 0x1e, 0x1f, and a few others for field and record separators
internally. It's an excellent idea if you're moving user entered comments
around the system. You want something that the users won't easily have
access to.