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Re: [Poll] Computing favorities

From	Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: [Poll] Computing favorities
Date	2015-08-31 19:41 +0000
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On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 20:31:19 +0100, Andrew Swallow wrote:

> On 31/08/2015 20:15, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>> FORTRAN used line numbers for certain purposes, but I'm pretty sure
>> these didn't need to be in order.  I think cc 73-80 could be used as a
>> sequence number to keep the deck in order, but the compiler didn't care
>> about that field.
> 
> Fortran allowed the line numbers to be in any order providing they were
> unique in the subroutine.
> 
> With card systems line numbers were frequently placed after column 72,
> allowing the pack to be sorted back into the correct order if it was
> dropped.

Yes, the latter were normally called 'sequence numbers', and did not 
actually have to be numeric (since they were generally ignored). This 
allowed one to number decks of subroutines separately, so that one could 
differentiate cards from various components when they were dropped.

Something like:
  SQRT0012
  COS00003

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