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Which means: free format is outdated, too. I live in the twenty-first century.

And how are you going to solve the problem of maintenance of that "old code"? 

Personally, I don't mind fixed format: I think it is the beaty of the language, 
as other languages has theirs.

My opinion.

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler.

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On 7-6-05 at 10:14 Alan Campin wrote:

>If IBM wants to make it less complex, give us a new version without all the 
>old garbage (Fixed Format, etc). A simple clean consistent >language for the 
>twentieth century. 




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