• gift_of_gab@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Years later in programming people were slashing zeroes and I was mighty confused. Some greybeard explained it eventually.

    As someone who slashes their zeroes, ouch.

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      2 days ago

      Well it was someone else who spent most of their career with FØRTRAN punchcards. By the time I was learning BASIC in the 1980s it had moved to the zero.