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From: corbett@beatnix.UUCP (Bob Corbett)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: dpANS Fortran 8x
Message-ID: <2721@elxsi.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 89 00:16:02 GMT
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Reply-To: uunet!elxsi!corbett (Bob Corbett)
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Organization: ELXSI Super Computers, San Jose
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I cannot understand why X3J3 refuses to add horizontal tabs to the Fortran
character set.  To my knowledge, there are no longer any machines being
produced that do not include a horizontal tab in their character set.
Differences between tabbing conventions are a major obstacle to portability.
Users do not like being told that they should not have put tabs in their codes
if they wanted them to be portable.

						Yours very truly,
						Bob Corbett
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