Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 03/03/2025 21:05, Dan Cross wrote:

In article <vq52ov$1f9re$3@dont-email.me>,
The Natural Philosopher  <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 03/03/2025 19:19, 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.

So do I but it gets unavoidable when toy are passing sixty plus
variables to a function.

 If you're passing sixty plus variables to a function, then line
length limits are the least of your problems.
 

Not if you are injecting a set of 60 variables into a database, or a CSV file.

- Dan C.
 

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