Tim Holyoake on Nostr: Gosh, string handling (ok, character*x, they're not really strings!) in FORTRAN77 is ...
Gosh, string handling (ok, character*x, they're not really strings!) in FORTRAN77 is basic and horrible.
No wonder the company I worked for back in the 80s created a library for dealing with them (and their Hollerith brethren from FORTRAN66).
#RetroComputing #FORTRAN
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