Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Derek]

On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 06:42:15 +1100, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx>  
wrote:

> Most of the abbreviations I've been comfortable with are
> those that I've learned when I was a teenage aspiring programmer.

You've just reminded me about an incident that happened to me. In a  
previous age, I was a Computer Operator (IBM System 360/25 - a mainframe)  
and was teaching myself COBOL during the night shifts. I wrote a little  
program to solve quadratic equations and called it QUADCALC. One day my  
boss called me into his office because he noticed it was run only a night  
time and wanted to know what it was. I explained and everything turned out  
ok for me (I was promoted in fact to a trainee programmer). But he  
initially thought I'd written a program to calculate horse racing  
Quadrella predictions, which would have been very inappropriate use of  
company time. Gotta love those abbreviations.

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia