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I've programmed on punched cards. System/360, FORTRAN77. Carter administration. Whether history exists or not, is not the question. Whether byte misers from lo
by rdiddly 7y ago
I've programmed on punched cards. System/360, FORTRAN77. Carter administration.
Whether history exists or not, is not the question. Whether byte misers from long ago caused this name-mangling issue, that's the conjecture part. At least one aspect of the guy's complaint was of recent origin, and ironically that was from arbitrarily insisting the name be longer than it is.
- dredmorbius 7y agoThe SE answer links to the relevant documentation. Spaces are indeed optional. It's not explicitly documented that a non-whitespaced 'MR' is read as a title, but it seems likely. http://www.amadeus.com/bg/documents/aco/bg/basic-qrg.pdf http://www.amadeus.com/bg/documents/aco/bg/basic-qrg.pdf
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- rdiddly 7y agoWell I'm convinced then. That's nuts. Not so much that something so crappy can exist, but that it can persist!