From: thomas.paulsen at firemail.de (Thomas Paulsen)
Subject: [COFF] On having a slash
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 16:21:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b1927f055d9e69d230ac6869bc38c1d8@firemail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c372b770-a323-aa9b-11ee-1bce57479c3f@gmail.com>
'Since the 1/l and 0/O were displayed
identically, the programmers didn't find the prank funny. Our
instructor said as he traveled the US training groups, he hoped he would
find the guy. 10 or 15 years later he was still more than a tad angry.
All for lack of slashes and serifs.'
the 1/l/i confusion was a real problem in those days when I saw numberless frustrated programmers whose programs did anything but the expected.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-13 9:01 dave
2020-04-13 11:30 ` david
2020-04-13 12:38 ` clemc
2020-04-13 14:10 ` mike.ab3ap
2020-04-13 14:21 ` thomas.paulsen [this message]
2020-04-13 14:23 ` imp
2020-04-13 12:53 ` paul
2020-04-13 14:12 ` imp
2020-04-13 15:29 ` krewat
2020-04-13 15:40 ` pdagog
2020-04-13 13:21 ` thomas.paulsen
2020-04-13 13:23 ` cym224
2020-04-13 13:36 `
2020-04-13 17:35 ` paul
2020-04-13 22:09 ` dave
2020-04-14 13:34 ` dfawcus+lists-coff
2020-04-14 14:23 ` gdmr
2020-04-13 22:12 ` krewat
2020-04-13 23:21 ` dave
2020-04-14 0:12 ` grog
2020-04-14 2:57 ` paul.allan.palmer
2020-04-13 15:14 rudi.j.blom
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