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From: Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no>
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Subject: Re: ALTER, ASSIGN and labels-as-values
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 11:19:38 +0200
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Jun 2024 14:11:46 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> 
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> Aside the fact that you needed to know the length _before_ you punched
>> the rest of the "very long text string" on the card?  Or are you
>> suggesting that coding forms (which were used for third party punching)
>> were a prerequisite for punching program cards?
> 
> Of course people used coding forms.

Do you insist on not reading what we write?

I hadn't even heard of coding forms until now, almost 47 years later. 
Yes, they would have made sense back then but what I had was notebooks 
with a raster (5mm step?) background.

Terje

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