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From: Gary Scott <garylscott@sbcglobal.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designate an integer value as
 integer*8 ?
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2024 10:20:08 -0500
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On 10/6/2024 10:18 AM, Gary Scott wrote:
> On 10/5/2024 10:39 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 21:35:42 -0500, Gary Scott wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/5/2024 8:58 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> How could it have been better without regular expressions?
>>>
>>> Extremely powerful substitution ...
>>
>> But without regular expressions, that kind of thing gets quite limited.
>>
>>> full control of fonts, code points, code pages, dynamically controlled
>>> overprinting, image handling ...
>>
>> troff was doing this sort of thing years before. Remember that the Unix
>> folks at Bell Labs got the funding to develop their new OS primarily on
>> the rationale that it would offer good text-processing facilities, like
>> you describe.
>>
>>> direct/binary datastream writing/editing, formatting page columns,
>>> gutters, running headings/footings, tables, lists (order, unordered,
>>> etc.) ...
>>
>> I notice no mention of line-numbering. That’s rather crucial for legal
>> documents -- another selling point that the Bell Labs folks were able to
>> address.
>>
>>> ... full support for foreign languages, double byte character sets
>>> decades before unicode ...
>>
>> I don’t know why you think that was such a radical feature, given that 
>> the
>> Koreans introduced their national double-byte code in 1974, the Japanese
>> theirs in 1978, and the Chinese did GB2312 in 1980.
>>
>>> Directly define your own gml (predecessor to html) tags.
>>
>> troff incorporated the idea of macros right from the beginning.
> 
> This stuff was done in the 60s and 70s, certainly it evolved over time.
And yes it supported line numbers and change markups.