Re: The joy of FORTRAN

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 11:44:30 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
 

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

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

 
Too bad. PL/I GET and PUT can operate on arrays and structures.

 
PL/I originated an in era which didn’t have the concept of stream-based
I/O.
 

Unless your definition differs from mine, PL/I GET and PUT are literally
called “stream I/O” statements. They have no concept of record boundaries.
My first problem learning the language was “I just want to read one card,
how do I do that?” It’s not as simple as FORTRAN. Finally I settled using
“record I/O”  (READ statement) to read exactly 80 characters. (GET SKIP can
also do this.)

--
Pete