Re: Where are spaces required in COBOL source code?

epc8@xxxxxxxx wrote:

>Chuck Stevens wrote:
>> <epc8@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1117154259.996313.163080@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Please note that the first language I learned was FORTRAN using
>> > fixed-form (punched card) format. There spaces are only meaningful
>> > inside string literals.
>>
>> Getting as much as possible accomplished on a single line of source code
>> used to be considered the hallmark of Expert Coding. This has passed out of
>> favor -- even in languages where it is common like FORTRAN and ALGOL --
>> because it's rarely very readable and often difficult to maintain. It's
>> not just FORTRAN.
>>
>
>Maybe Dijkstra was correct. ...

Well.. Even a blind squirrel finds the occasional nut.. :-)

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