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Syd Rumpo[_2_] Syd Rumpo[_2_] is offline
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On 03/02/2015 21:58, Adam Funk wrote:

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OTOH, "Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom
about the tenth century A. D., and lasted until about 1957, when
FORTRAN abandoned the practice."


Bringing to mind the ancient example from BASIC...

FORK = 10 TOMATOES

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