I wrote: > IIRC the numbers did not have to be sequential. That is, you could use 10 > 20 30 ... and then replace 20 with 15, 20, and 25 when you made a change. > The card sorter just put the cards in ascending order.
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Isn't that where line numbers came from? Since each line would have > corresponded to a card? I know that Fortran didn't have every single > line numbered (only for e.g. gotos), but I'm assuming that this is where > BASIC got the idea. The sequence numbers were punched in columns 73-80, which FORTRAN did not use. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
