1 Jan
2006
1 Jan
'06
1:06 a.m.
Hi,
"Chuck Guzis" said:
On 12/31/2005 at 2:46 PM Fred Cisin wrote:
"One way to indicate the difference is to write the letter as [O with
a slash] and the number as 0; provided the data preparation operator
knows that this is the rule we are adopting. .... The conventions used
above are the ones we shall use in this book."
"Computer Education in Schools" ICL CES, 1978
That's what we were expected to do in work (we used an ICL 1904), but
for my own use I slashed the zeros as that's what I'd always done with
Morse code.
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb at dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
HARUMPH.
I slash my zeroes. Always have; always will.
35/40 years ago, I knew a couple of people who slashed their 'Oh's.
25 years ago, I inherited books, bookcases, etc. when the last one
of them died. Is there still anybody alive who does it that way?
Maybe there are some anarchists hiding out there. Slashing zero was
definitely the IBM way and, AFAIK, the same for all other major
manufacturers (just check some of the programming language manuals on
bitsavers).