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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 18 Oct 2024 04:35:09 GMT
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On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:50:46 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

>    The need for it has been 'depricated'. However it was one of the more
>    confusing bits of the language. You can still see vestiges of it in
>    some Python, even Pascal, fine-formatting commands however.

Our source tree still has vestiges of Fortran that go back more than 20 
years and are strictly f77.

	  recnum = 1
	  read(adrich,15,rec=recnum) totrec
15	  format(i10)

100	 if(recnum.gt.totrec) goto 500
	  read(adrich,105,rec=recnum+1) ch
105	 format(1a1)

It's been too long and I don't have a clue. f-strings are the best thing 
that happened to Python recently. 

 f"{item.artist:30.30}  {item.track:40.40}  {item.time / 60000:.2f}"

It's very similar to C# and f" makes more sense than $".