alt Hacker NewsI would read «КНЦ» as «КОНЕЦ», literally “an end” or “the end” (Russian does not have anything resembling articles). Who needs vowels, anyway.
Also, «ВСЕ» feels like «ВСЁ» in this context, I’d translate that as “that’s all”.
I would read «КНЦ» as «КОНЕЦ», literally “an end” or “the end” (Russian does not have anything resembling articles). Who needs vowels, anyway.
Also, «ВСЕ» feels like «ВСЁ» in this context, I’d translate that as “that’s all”.
The acronyms are because it was originally russified by substituting character codes in Pascal binary. Thus VAR became ИМЯ, END became КНЦ and so on. Same reason JOB hilariously became ЗАД in the liberated OS/360.
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