Post #4261903
2026-07-13 21:32 UTC
@hannorein@mastodon.social Apparently ASCII space is encoded as EBCDIC 0x40: https://wiki.osdev.org/EBCDIC. I don't know what spacebar on a keypunch would have done, though. ASCII NUL from paper tape did nothing, so is similar.
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@hannorein@mastodon.social 2026-07-13 21:41
@thalia@discuss.systems I wonder if that is why spaces in fortran don't matter at all, even between keywords.