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[Davide Del Vento]

> It wasn't just file names. Variable names in old languages had limitations
> as well.
>

I learned FORTRAN after mastering C. I once wrote a program which had a
subtle bug which I spent lots of time debugging: FORTRAN silently ignored
the longer variable names I used so different (to me) variables were
considered the same.


Hey, there's another debate -
> embedding meta-data in file names. :)
>

Somebody "won" a compression competition by doing just that. He was
disqualified and accepted that, but the letter of the rules did not prevent
that option, so he could have appealed.
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