[ale] programming question

[Leam Hall]

+1, and lower case "ell". Depending on the font, uppercase "D" is often 
suspect on printed labels.

On 02/09/16 23:18, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> 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.
>>
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