Re: The joy of FORTRAN

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> 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.

 
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.
 

I keep them that way, too. It’s a bit harder to follow across longer lines.
That’s one reason I really miss the 3290. There was an optional full-width
dotted underscore line that could follow the cursor up and down. It made it
easy to read across a full 160-column line. I haven’t found an editor that
will do that.

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Pete