From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 14:34:01 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
      
   > My code used to assign Hollerith to Real numbers but I ripped that out   
   > years ago in a project to get rid of Hollerith.   
      
   Fortran was the first programming language I learned (from the Anna Burke   
   Harris book). The only kind of string literals I can remember in that   
   first learning were Hollerith literals. I liked the fact that they were   
   unambiguous: because length was explicit up front, you could any   
   characters you liked in them.   
      
   Later I discovered that “normal” people preferred explicitly-delimited   
   string literals.   
      
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