Re: text file from Linux to windows.
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 04:47:50PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > IIRC, each [FORTRAN punch] card had a sequence number.
>
> Paul Scott writes:
> > That a choice which got in the way of the development stage. Who wanted
> > to punch a whole new deck for each small change?
>
> 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.
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.
Doug.
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