From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: thomas.paulsen at firemail.de (Thomas Paulsen) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 16:21:52 +0200 Subject: [COFF] On having a slash In-Reply-To: References: <5AFF5796-5D64-4CCB-8FCE-E06005282D79@kdbarto.org> Message-ID: '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.