[NTLUG:Discuss] Java/Linux versus school teacher.

[steve]

Rusty Haddock wrote:

> I would have gotten a 100% but I had forgotten
> to slash my zeroes in two answers (as I had done with the rest of my
> answers).  :-(

You should have claimed that you were an early IBM developer...
or Scandinavian!

On early IBM hardware, the Oh's are slashed and zeroes are not!!
(yep - IBM weren't happy with mere EBCIDIC confusions).

In Scandinavian languages Oh-with-a-slash is a character of their
standard alphabet - so Finnish programmers don't slash their zeroes.
But hold on!  We're Linux users!  I bet Linus doesn't slash his zeroes.

According to Wikipedia there have been a bunch of odd-ball conventions
before the modern one became prominent.

You deserved 100%!  :-)