On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Programming to the lowest common denominator may not feel sexy, > but it can prevent many headaches in the future. I spent quite a > bit of time many years ago getting a large FORTRAN system working > that had been written on a system that use 7 character variable > names where standard FORTRAN only permitted 6 (it was amazing how > many of the variable names differed only in the 7th character). > While this would be relatively easy to deal with today, it was a > bitch when all programs were on 80-column punch cards. >
Okay, now you're officially old. (Like me.) mhr _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
