Re: Re: Cobol/gnucobol
By: Nightfox to Boraxman on Fri May 30 2025 09:20:03

Do you think the use of the virtual keyboard has significantly changes how people compose their replies? In that they just write shorter, disjointed comments?

Not really. Using abbreviated text goes as far back as the telegraph, when sending a msg. was priced by the character, so brevity was paramount. In the 90s, when PDAs with keyboards showed up, again, people would abbreviate their text, both for comfort and cost.

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