Path: csiph.com!news.nrbbs.org!border-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:31:02 +0000 From: steve g Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Are TABs a topic? ( was Re: =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=9CA?= dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch [...]) References: <10tg96h$1g1mp$1@dont-email.me> <10tismt$2cmtr$1@dont-email.me> <10vnae7$35ho0$1@dont-email.me> <10vooj9$3uus7$9@dont-email.me> <87fqyaefl9.fsf@gmail.com> <11ak51e$4o6m$2@dont-email.me> <877bjdwsck.fsf@gmail.com> <11b6efs$2irrr$2@dont-email.me> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:30:58 -0400 Message-ID: <87h5ig9vwd.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/wGVzzEUZFR3DJW63SIF27xHR4U= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 13 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-sVUqjfP0FlH6V7V9e2RbLo21qwbQlWmLLSLgTTbrIAwKurFcL7tHPO/cpmtYqCmtcmtcRPbVjYtgDxM!D2fVxot1z3uBt/GGTl45jsOjq/WBSccQOfSA+t4LnQuXIxo= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: csiph.com comp.editors:106999 Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes: > On Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:46:51 -0400, steve g wrote: > >> His thesis hung in the balance because in fortran you need to end >> the program with a period. > > That was a requirement in Pascal, not in any Fortran I ever encountered. Yes you are correct about pascal. You are probably correct about fortran. I believe my prof had used a punch card (maybe one too many times) - not really a program; but the language might be wrong but the classes were entertaining.