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Fixed line formats and continuation columns made good sense when programs came in decks of punch cards, and not really much since.--[[User:Wherrera|Wherrera]] ([[User talk:Wherrera|talk]]) 07:41, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
: I wholeheartedly agree. I don't know which modern computer programming languages (other than a few) that still have restrictions (or rules) regarding fixed line formats and/or continuation columns, and there are still (machine) assemblers still being used, and I have no idea how many of them have columnar restrictions. I believe '''COBOL''' still has such restrictions, albeit even though it has object-oriented features, I don't know if it is considered modern because of the ancient lineage. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 14:40, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
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