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From: amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Message-ID: <1147@taux01.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 89 15:44:45 GMT
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[Re: comments in a strange language]

My cousin used to work for a British COBOL software house.  His first
job was to fly to their branch in Brazil to help maintaining a large
project; it seems most of it was written by an Israeli who had left the
company, leaving behind him a lot of programs whose variable names were
all in Hebrew.

Using Hebrew words for variable names is a common practice among Israeli
COBOL programmers, since that's the only way not to tread on a reserved
word...
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