Real Old School Programming

[Gordon JC Pearce]

woodelf wrote:
> 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.

They look pretty distinct to me (X11, font is Vera Sans Mono).  By 
"modern displays" what exactly do you mean?

Gordon.