[NTLUG:Discuss] Java/Linux versus school teacher.
steve
sjbaker1 at airmail.net
Mon Mar 19 13:39:20 CDT 2007
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%! :-)
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