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by smnplk 3333 days ago
There was this variable name I misspelled once ;)
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Heh. While still a student, I was working in Fortran (all upper case). I was trying to type COS (the cosine function), and I overshot the Oh character, and typed a zero: C0S. Not very visually different! It took me two days to figure out why Fortran suddenly didn't know what cosine was...
rm -rf $BUILROOT/∗