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

[woodelf]

Philip Pemberton wrote:

>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."
>  
>
My gripe is modern displays and printers print 1 ( one ) and l ( 
lowercase L ) the same.