Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 3/4/25 2:06 AM, rbowman wrote:

On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 22:06:07 -0500, c186282 wrote:
 

On 3/3/25 2:19 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 15:24:04 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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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.

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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

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I still prefer statements that don't exceed 80 columns.

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    Wise. Not only doesn't fit a standard terminal but it's harder to get
    the gist if the line runs off the screen. Run into this editing with
    nano kinda often alas.

 It's for Python but I agree with most of PEP 8.  Black or ruff do a nice
job of reformatting .py files if I get sloppy.
 I use nano very rarely. One of the first things I do on any machine is
install Vim, preferable gVim. I rarely use the menus or graphic features
of gVim but I like not losing the terminal.

   I use nano all the damned time - 'C' or Python or Bash.
   Wrote an (ASM) screen editor much like it for the orig
   IBM-PC since I just despised EDLIN.
   I *delete*/rename the Linux line editors so they can't
   accidentally pop up. Really.
   Some of the simple GUI editors are perfectly good now,
   but I still find myself in terminal, with nano, a lot
   of the time. Some of my boxes are SSH Only ...