Yorkshire apostrophe fans demand road signs with nowt taken out

Absolute bollocks. Any DBMS and any competent developer will cope with punctuation just fine. And punctuation is specifically ALLOWED by BS7666, if they are part of the name:

Abbreviations and punctuation should not be used unless they appear in the designated name, e.g. “Dr Newton’s Way”. Only single spaces should be used.

Discussion [0] (153 points, yesterday, 198 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40262883

Hmmm - changing reality to conform with artificial software limits is not a great idea.

> changing reality to conform with artificial software limits

This happens more often than people realize. I worked with someone who developed one of the first softwares to manage interims workers in Belgium.

He acknowledged once that interim contracts were renewed every week because his software could only produce weekly contracts and pay slips, although the legislation allowed for 6 months or so.

I still remember times when interim workers were carrying ever growing stacks of paper and managers signing them off every week.