Geek pi**ing contest

[wendigo100]

Dunno...

But I know what FORTRAN is...

HTH.

I was a FORT IV man many years ago. All I can remember now is you had to leave some sort of margin for optional line numbers, and six-character variable names. I think.

[Diver]

Cut my teeth on Fortran n Cobol,

Now I grind my teeth if it aint Drag n Drop.

long live the builder

[OwlHoot]

I was a FORT IV man many years ago. All I can remember now is you had to leave some sort of margin for optional line numbers, and six-character variable names. I think.

and there were no block ifs in FORTRAN IV - You had to negate the condition and use a GOTO to a label past the code subject to the IF

[OwlHoot]

Uuum...

First six characters on a line are reserved for a numeric label:

1000 FORMAT(1X, 80A1)

sort of thing.

Character 7 is the extender, which joins the current line onto the line preceding it...


Then characters 8 to 71 hold the code....

Finally characters 72 to 80 have the card sequence number which is mighty handy if you drop the deck of cards and the rubber band breaks...

All of which is now bollocks, coz you can use the namby pamby freeform.

Real Programmers wrote
FORTRANINUPPERCASEWITHOUTANYSPACESCOZTHECOMPILERLI KEDITLIKETHAT

I haven't written a line of FORTRAN since 1991...

Talking about all this column alignment stuff, does anyone agree that python, despite its object-oriented slant, is a massive leap back into the dark ages with its reliance on column alignment for nesting of ifs?
I think it's vile, and I won't touch the language.

[wizard1974uk]

and you had to create a new thread to point that out? Thanks for wasting 2 seconds of my precious time.

[Diver]

Go on! How many of you had to Google that boring old; hard on the brain cr@p just to get a line in?

[Diver]

Can we please have AtW and Sasguru in this thread, please, please

[sasguru]

Can we please have AtW and Sasguru in this thread, please, please

Atw is a wannabe geek. I am real geek turned business person.

HTH

[Diver]

Atw is a wannabe geek. I am real geek turned business person.

HTH

I used to be a Geek and a Nerd, but I grew out of it, so there is hope for you yet Sas

[Churchill]

Atw is a wannabe geek. I am real geek turned business person.

HTH

You're beginning to sound like AtW...