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From: Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 4 Mar 2025 22:29:30 GMT
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On Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:44:29 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

> c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
>> On 3/4/25 2:06 AM, rbowman wrote:
>>> On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 22:06:07 -0500, c186282 wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 3/3/25 2:19 PM, 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.
>>>> 
>>>> Wise. Not only doesn't fit a standard terminal but it's harder to get
>>>> the gist if the line runs off the screen. Run into this editing with
>>>> nano kinda often alas.
>>> 
>>> It's for Python but I agree with most of PEP 8.  Black or ruff do a
>>> nice job of reformatting .py files if I get sloppy.
>>> 
>>> I use nano very rarely. One of the first things I do on any machine is
>>> install Vim, preferable gVim. I rarely use the menus or graphic
>>> features of gVim but I like not losing the terminal.
>> 
>> 
>>   I use nano all the damned time - 'C' or Python or Bash.
>>   Wrote an (ASM) screen editor much like it for the orig IBM-PC since I
>>   just despised EDLIN.
>> 
>>   I *delete*/rename the Linux line editors so they can't accidentally
>>   pop up. Really.
>> 
>>   Some of the simple GUI editors are perfectly good now, but I still
>>   find myself in terminal, with nano, a lot of the time. Some of my
>>   boxes are SSH Only ...
>> 
>> 
> I like nedit. It’s the closest I can find to mainframe editors. When I
> get a round tuit I’d like to code a Rexx interface for it.

I use REXX a lot - on FreeBSD.



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