It's an old(*) programmers trick from when there were reasonable limits on the
length of a variable name compilers would permit (6-8 chars.). In order to use a
variable name that somewhat resembled the term you were modelling, you would
drop the vowels from the word. There was also some efficiency
Thanks, bt i thnk i alrdy gt 1.
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at lst i dd ystrd.
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Feigning erudition, Jack Berger wrote:
% Thanks, bt i thnk i alrdy gt 1.
% OR
% at lst i dd ystrd.
;-)
% From: Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
% f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng.
Kurt
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% at lst i dd ystrd.
;-)
% From: Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
% f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng.
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