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These articles always remind me of some code for particle physics simulations. It was full of variables called anal_this and anal_that (because analysis).

Someone put a comment "stop calling variables ANAL!!! This is physics not an orgy!!!!"

I may have a copy on a disquette somewhere :)



Even more so, there were software projects (IIRC, the Gnu C Compiler) that conformed to the 8.3 DOS filename restrictions, and so for example, “realtime analysis” in a source file named “rt_anal.c” handled without drama for years.




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