Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 04/03/2025 04:00, c186282 wrote:

On 3/3/25 3:17 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 03/03/2025 19:19, rbowman 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.

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

 
  Ummm ... THAT nasty ... create a struct and pass one
  pointer instead  :-)
 

fprintf/sprintf doesn't take a structure as an argument.