Re:Interrobang
by jgtrosh on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @10:18AM
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FORTRAN code requires no space (to save space on punchcards) ; it seems an appropriate similitude between protohistoric languages.
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Amazingly, FORTRAN doesn’t even require spaces between keywords and variable names. So when the compiler sees FORI=1 it has to look still further ahead to decide if this is a for-loop (FORI=1TO9DO) or an assignment to a variable named FORI.