| From: | Paul Gettle <RunnerPaul@*****.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: [OT] TLAs? [was: IMC?] |
| Date: | Sun, 22 Nov 1998 10:21:20 -0500 |
At 12:01 AM 11/22/98 -0600, Thomas wrote:
>> (If you don't know what a TLA is, be _glad_.)
>
> HEY!! The fact that there are only 17576 TLA's is a serios
problem
>in the US computer industry. Not to mention the governmental,
business,
>and industial uses of those limited number of TLA's. The TLA crisis
could
>potentialy be much worse than the Year Two Thousand problem. :):):)
Bah. It's hardly a threat. In programming theory, there is such a
thing called "overloading" where one function name can call one of
several blocks of code depending on the context in which the function
name is used. TLAs can and _have_ been subjected to similar
context-sensitve overloading.
And besides, if the "17576 TLA Limit" ever does become a problem,
there are always other character sets to draw from. Fraternities, for
example, have been using alternate characterset TLAs for decades now.
:)
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