re: #342 oldegeezr

It was COBOL not FORTRAN that caused the year 2000, kerfuffle…correct…?

Whatever happened to all those “punch cards”…if they’d all been recycled back in the fifties, we wouldn’t have to cut any more trees today.

When I learned a bit of Fortran years ago, it still had vestiges of its punch card origins — commands had to be preceded by six spaces, because that’s how the cards were punched. I think there are compiler options in more modern versions that let you turn off this odd requirement.