sparge,
What the heck it's of 'academic interest'? Do not like 'one fortran line' -- ok, it's just 132 symbols per one such window. No one is interested in writing just one single window in the whole program. In last case even 1000 lines per such a window will be OK, who cares. But Clearwin has no advantage for one-window programs.
Practically, resource file added at link time used not only for many windows of same program but for many programs.