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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:26:54 +0100
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On 30/09/2024 13:35, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> In my world blank padding is simply wrong result.

Hah. That reminds me of a project I once worked on.  The disk space was 
getting tight tos a nice liitle sysdamin write a script that removed all 
instances of IIRC 4 spaces in our code and replaced then with tabs.

Unfortunately my software was working on a digital oscilloscope whose 
underlying software did not know what to do with tabs, so all the on 
screen menus came out all over the place.

I had to manually reinsert all the spaces in the display strings

Because his theory that all spaces could be replaced with tabs, was not 
applicable to padded string literals inside the code itself


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