Subject: Re: Year 2000

From: warnock at Hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov (Archie Warnock)
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:11:52 GMT

In article <27AUG199210071784 at stars.gsfc.nasa.gov>, thompson at stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (William Thompson, code 682.1, x2040) writes:
|> Although I like FITS, and plan to use it, I find the eight character limit very
|> constraining.  As one person I work with said, "It's like programming in
|> FORTRAN 2".

And we're all the way up to FORTRAN 77, with 90 due out RSN <grin>.

Seriously, though, it's supposed to be that way - maximum portability
and all that...

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