On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 04:40:20PM -0600, Nick Bender wrote: > I wonder if any FORTRAN programmers out there remember the trick of putting > line numbers after column 72 so the card sort could sort your program back > into order when you dropped your card deck?
This was not limited to FORTRAN. We always used sequence numbers in 73-80 for exactly this reason. To this day the MVS (z/OS) editor will place them for you in those colums automatically when you say "num on" or "renum". This works for assembler, COBOL, and PL/I too. And yeah you won't understand unless you ever dropped a box of cards or saw the look of horror on somebody else's face when he did. > Finally I'll never get back the three days I spent finding the zero I had > mistakenly put in place of the letter O in my JCL at the front of the card > deck. Good times... We're still keeping the faith! /jl -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary / \ http://www.mutt.org attachments / \ Code Blue or Go Home! Encrypted email preferred PGP Key 2048R/DA65BC04
