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Subject: Re: self-documenting APL, not COBOL and tricks
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On Wed, 02 Nov 2022 18:09:00 +0000, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Nov 2022 17:43:34 +0000 Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> wrote:
> 
>> One of the things I like most about modern computing is the
>> standardisation of naming, symbols, good definitions.
> 
> 	I offer 'static' as a counterexample. It has an astonishing number
> of meanings in different computing contexts and none of them have to do
> with things not moving.

Well, perhaps in BCPL. A static variable is ... well ... statically 
allocated. The word is not overloaded there.

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