In article <3db95947-1e35-4bd1-bd4c-37df646f9...@v25g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>, John Machin <sjmac...@lexicon.net> wrote:
> On Jan 2, 10:29 am, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > > > > > To address your question more directly, here's a couple of ways Fortran > > treated whitespace which would surprise the current crop of > > Java/PHP/Python/Ruby programmers: > > > > 1) Line numbers (i.e. the things you could GOTO to) were in column 2-7 > > (column 1 was reserved for a comment indicator). This is not quite > > significant whitespace, it's more like significant indentation. > > That would also surprise former FORTRAN programmers (who rarely > referred to the language as "Fortran"). A comment was signified by a C > in col 1. Otherwise cols 1-5 were used for statement labels (the > things you could GOTO), col 6 for a statement continuation indicator, > cols 7-72 for statement text, and cols 73-80 for card sequence numbers. My apologies, you are correct. The long disused neural pathways have started to degrade. Trust me, I really did write FORTRAN. On punch cards even.
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