>Yeah, I don't know which came first, the coding form or the symbol table = >design. And since everything had to fit into the first 72 columns of an = >80 column card, real estate was precious.
For FORTRAN, wasn't the first column reserved to designate a Comment card? (I'm sure that the "C" had to go in col. 1, but I don't remember if anything else could go there.) --henry schaffer
