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Re: "Canadian style" of indentation

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From: halasz
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 22:52
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In article <42d3e7$aks@mujibur.inmind.com>,  <mfinney@inmind.com> wrote:
:Languages such as COBOL -- of which
:we have a few programs :-( -- requires specific columns
:and tabs messes that up very nicely.

In article <42l1th$al8@solutions.solon.com>, seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) writes
: Ahh.  So it's a workaround for broken languages.

COBOL is so good for fixd formatting of output, one wishes that a
good successor has been devized.  But I suspect that if one follows
"comp.lang.cobol" one finds discussion of less pickie compilers.
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Subject: Re: "Canadian style" of indentation
Date: 6 Sep 1995 18:52:11 -0400
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