Real Old School Programming (was: Re: Where to buy a Selectric?)

[Philip Pemberton]

In message <200512310902.JAA12099 at citadel.metropolis.local>
          Stan Barr <stanb at dial.pipex.com> wrote:

> In some places it was a line through the letter O.  Mostly in Europe I think,
> we certainly did that as it was taught that way in ICL course material.

Hmm. I was always told that "if there's any possibility of a zero being
mistaken for an 'O', put a forward slash through the zero"...

Guess it's personal preference, but I bet it cause{s,d} more than a few
problems... "Bob in Engineering slashes his zeroes, but Fred in Software
slashes his 'O's. Mix them up at your peril."

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