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

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[โ€“] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[โ€“] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Damn that must have been such a headache