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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:25:50 +0100
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On 18/10/2024 07:15, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
> On 10/18/24 12:17 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:50:46 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>>
>>> The need for it has been 'depricated'. However it was one of the more
>>> confusing bits of the language. You can still see vestiges of it in
>>> some Python, even Pascal, fine-formatting commands however.
>>
>> C did it better. That’s why so many other languages copied the C-style
>> printf language, not Fortran’s FORMAT system.
> 
>    No complaint - 'C' is *good*.
> 
>    Of course it WAS 'evolutionary' ... BCPL became 'B'
>    which became 'C' ... plenty of time for refinements.
> 
>    Somewhere I have a BCPL compiler ... gotta hunt .....

Didnt COBOL have a PIC command?
You set up a fixed width template and COBOL would slice and dice the 
data to fit it.


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