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From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 11:44:30 -0700
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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 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.

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

-- 
Pete