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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 09:25:42 +0000
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On 01/03/2025 01:24, c186282 wrote:
> Being kinda old-school my pgms always look like
>    something from the K&R book, and with comments
>    after almost every line. THAT you can read a
>    day from now, or a year from now ....

Yes.Even the ? operator gets clumsy if it is being used to fork two 
different paths of complex code.

Much better to use an 'If' with some long blocks, or even inline 
function for clarity and still retain the speed.


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