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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Borland IDEs

Ugh, you just gave me Turbo Basic flashbacks. My favorite thing was that variable names could be as long as you liked and mixed case, but the compiler only used the first two letters and case insensitive at that. So "BatShitCrazy" and "BALLPARKESTIMATE" actually referenced the same variable.