On Mon, 13 Apr 2015, Maurice Kinal wrote to mark lewis:

 ml> they don't really mean a whole lot

 MK> You've obviously never used a f77 compiler before.  :::cold shiver 
 MK> down the spine:::

you are correct... i refuse fortran and cobol for numerous reasons... i have,
however, toyed with ada and played with lisp for several years... however, i
prefer pascal and its strong typing which helps to thwart common problems seen
in other languages ;) 

 ml> other than some programs requiring them to work properly

 MK> Yes.  See my above comment.  I notice that on your quote that a 
 MK> tab at the start of a line has an extra space.  Is there a reason 
 MK> for that?

hunh? i thought you said there were no tab characters... i do no note any extra
characters, either... one character, two spaces, another character, etc...

 MK> Seems a tad odd but maybe not if at start of line as there might 
 MK> be a reason for adding additional character(s) for that special 
 MK> case.  I've seen it happen before. 

i dunno... it really isn't that important either ;) 

)\/(ark