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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 15:24:04 +0000
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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


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