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Jay: We gray-bearded & arthritic veterans of command-level CICS coding

recall that the CICS preprocessor would happily accept RECIEVE as an

alternative spelling for RECEIVE. Apparently the folk at IBM held no very

high opinion of the spelling abilities of mainframe programmers.

John Derbyshire — Mr. Derbyshire is a former contributing editor of National Review.
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