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From: Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no>
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Subject: Re: ALTER, ASSIGN and labels-as-values
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 10:33:32 +0200
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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

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- <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"