Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Terje Mathisen Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: ALTER, ASSIGN and labels-as-values Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 10:33:32 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <0uo5O.16554$Qgge.15708@fx12.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:33:33 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6a9889e9771d8ccab5180c8c6aea4f44"; logging-data="4021445"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18oHf1Fp1ITgtrtlE6YQNvcpKw5kvyfL5YaKOFH2jzGLA==" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Jumuvh3ruly1m/ZtQ+YQeTIcJsE= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2297 Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2024 10:15:54 +0200, Terje Mathisen wrote: > >> This was using hand-punched cards, writing FORTRAN 2 code with the >> Hollerith text constants so you had to count very carefully: >> >> FORMAT 27HTHIS IS A VERY LONG TEXT STRING... > > Hey, did you not notice the columns were numbered? So all you had to do to > determine the length of the string was subtract column numbers? > Hey, did you not read what I wrote about this being hand-punched cards? By the time I got to the end of the string it was too late to go back and update the 27H count. I had to count these strings on paper, in the notebook where I had written the code before I got access to the card puncher. (A glorified typewriter) Terje -- - "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"