On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 18:29:41 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote:
>
>Just today I typed "sstar trek insurrection" into Google and I didn't
>bother to fix the double ss or worry if I spelled that big word
>correctly, because I knew Google would fix it for me.
> 
A half-century ago, I saw a magazine article suggesting that FORTRAN
(*the* language then) should treat '0' and 'O' as interchangable.  OK.
I can write "C0NTINUE" instead of "CONTINUE".  But it restricts the name
space for variables.  (And I wondered if '0' and 'O' confusion was the
nub of the SHARK TANK CICS article.)

-- gil

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