Re: FORRTRAN CANT (was: Alternative COBOL "telco" source program)

lruss@superlink.net (L Russ) writes:
> robin <robin_v@bigpond.mapson.com> wrote in message news:<Iadtc.12799$L.10
63@news-server.bigpond.net.au>... 
>
> They are all worse, much worse, than banal.

agreed.
A beginner could solve most of them,
 
>
> But if you do it in one statement, then it's not in a loop, and CAN'T
> 18 clearly states that you should use a loop, with at most 3
> statements, implying that using a loop (with three statements or less)
> is really the important thing when you do this task.

The only reason for this silly "rule"
is that Frank can't do it any other way.

FORRTRAN can't do it with a 2-statement DO loop either.

But what Frank can't comprehend is that
as PL/I has varying strings, there is little
call for such a task, as trailing blanks
usually don't occur.