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I helped port a physicist's assembly code long ago; variables were named alphabetically in the order encountered in the code, e.g. A, B, ...A1, ..., AA1, etc. up to ZZ23.

Still amazed that the nearly-incomprehensible code (and the port) worked



When I was a kid I used to think that having variables A... without any gaps in the letters meant that I did a good job of thinking out the program in advance.




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