There is a hat named IDENTIFICATION DIVISION which can be earned by earning a silver badge. The hat name is in all caps.
Is the naming in all caps purposefully, or is this a bug?
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Sign up to join this communityIt's intentional - it's a reference to COBOL, which Admiral Grace Hopper worked on. It's how the code would look.
Whoever came up with this needs additional stamps on their geek card.
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION
is where the program -- and now the hat -- gets its name.
Dec 13, 2017 at 14:30
No, this is on purpose. IDENTIFICATION DIVISION
is a statement in COBOL, see this Hello World program:
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. hello-world.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
DISPLAY "Hello, world!"
.
Because it's the first line in a COBOL program, it's aptly placed first in the Winter Bash hats overview.
Now we all luxuriate in encodings like UTF-16 and the frankly obese UTF-32, it's occasionally nice to travel back a generation or two and use text that can be encoded in DEC SIXBIT and perhaps even earlier.
This hat showcases such encodings.
Some programmers especially those using COBOL and even early FORTRAN dine out on this sort of thing.
Reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-bit_character_code