Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Peter Flass Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 13:49:05 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: <794451758.762727703.370029.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> References: <1smdnSjX3YoxgWf7nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@earthlink.com> <1396870532.749421730.052473.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <1214951717.762291306.657281.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:49:11 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="29938bc2b28b2b67fad8068ac645bc39"; logging-data="1563587"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/F1nOROFY4muuzT6vKUmD8" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.3.1 (iPad) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0n8364JwCyC829z4LlYy6CLwuFs= sha1:DFn37+LPuUWoknv8/wABV36Pq14= Bytes: 2885 The Natural Philosopher 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. > Fortunately you can explicitly line wrap and the compiler don't care. > I would usually do one argument per line at that point. -- Pete