[ale] programming question

[DJ-Pfulio]

1 line of code.  B and 8 should be avoided as well as S and 5 too.

On 02/09/16 20:45, Pete Hardie wrote:
> It's not a programmer failure - it's a requirements failure.  Some
> marketeer or architect failed to specify
> "Serial number will not include letters I and O"
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 8:32 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com
> <mailto:kilpatms at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I know nothing of modern languages; I stopped learning  how to program
>     at Cobol, Algol, and Fortran.
>     But I have a question spinning off this serial number: F9IANU000217.
> 
>     Given that only a few lines of code should be necessary to create serial
>     numbers, how much more code would be needed to exclude upper case "I"
>     and "O"?
> 
>     This is the first time I have ever seen an upper case "I" used in a
>     serial number.  The type face used for this serial number made it
>     difficult to see that the third character was an "I" and not a "1".
>     I have seen an upper case "O" used however, and that is even more
>     stupid.
> 
>     For the record, the serial number above identifies an electronic device
>     manufactured by a well-known company.  It didn't work out of the box,
>     and after an hour with tech support I was told to return it as
>     defective.
> 
>     Which I will do.
>