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From: Walter Bushell
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 01:44

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In article <3ve99dtbi7vu0jda6...@4ax.com>,
 J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Second, once
> the habit develops, it's easy to run out of variable names and end up
> using "l" (lower case L), which is identical to "1" (one) in many
> fonts which can lead to very difficult to identify bugs.

A simple keypuch error based on that. Very early (1967), three of us 
were trying to debug a compile error, from another programmer. After a 
few minutes, I said that's not an "IF" statement, that's a 1F (One F) 
statement. I think I had to pull the card to show them.

-- 
Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greed. Me.

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