Re: [pure-lang-users] gedit pure.lang

[John C. <co...@cc...>]

Eddie Rucker scripsit:

> I think this thing must have started with business folk or education
> folk. All the Mathematicians, Engineers, and Scientists I know frown on
> this sort of thing.

I suspect that ".5" got started in Fortran on the IBM keypunch machines,
where typing "0" was not only extra physical work just to push down the
key, but made it that much more likely that you'd run off the end of
the card.

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