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"It's just easier to type" and other lies you believe

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[-] words_number@programming.dev 32 points 1 year ago

Seriously though, why? Is there historic reasons for that? Did they have to pay extra for more letters back in the day?

[-] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I worked with a complier that would assume only compare the first 8 characters and would treat it the same afterwards.

Compiler copyright was around 1990.

Edit: This was for function names in C

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Damn that must have been such a headache

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