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From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 21:05:19 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <vq52ov$1f9re$3@dont-email.me>,
The Natural Philosopher  <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>On 03/03/2025 19:19, rbowman wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 15:24:04 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> 
>>> On 03/03/2025 10:05, Niklas Karlsson wrote:
>>>> Some would probably get on your case for being profligate with vertical
>>>> space... but honestly, it doesn't much matter with the kind of screen
>>>> real estate we have these days. I do agree that your style has
>>>> readability benefits.
>>>
>>> Yes. Back in the day when I debugged with 80 column dot matrix
>>> printouts, it got messy.
>>> To day with collapsible blocks on a gui it's a lot easier
>> 
>> I still prefer statements that don't exceed 80 columns.
>So do I but it gets unavoidable when toy are passing sixty plus 
>variables to a function.

If you're passing sixty plus variables to a function, then line
length limits are the least of your problems.

	- Dan C.