Ha! "Exploit Compiler Name Length Limits" I worked for many years on a FoxPro application with a 10-character limit. The first version of the program was wri

Ha! "Exploit Compiler Name Length Limits" I worked for many years on a FoxPro application with a 10-character limit. The first version of the program was written under a two character limit. This never bothered my boss, who was a terrible typist and always used short names anyway. But I at some point took up the practice of descriptive names, on top of the Hungarian notation we'd adopted for sanity. So I was exceeding the limit all over the place. Ten years later, guess who had to convert the program to VFP, which has no variable name limit. And no compile-time checks on variables, even when they are declared. Glad that year's over.