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Richard Maine  
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 More options Mar 7 2000, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
From: Richard Maine <ma...@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov>
Date: 2000/03/07
Subject: Re: How long can a statement be?
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nor...@mech.eng.usyd.edu.au writes:
> Richard Maine <ma...@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov> expounded:

> : In free source form, a statement can be up to 40 lines long and each
> : line can have up to 132 characters.

> As a matter of interest, does anyone know why the number 132 was chosen?

I don't actually know.  A plausible guess might be that its the width
of some common terminals.  Its also about the max width of the typical
old line-printer, but I can't figure out why anyone would care about that
for the purpose, so that's probably a coincidence.

--
Richard Maine
ma...@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov


 
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