@Tim H A lot of the code I work with originated on Alpha Microsystems hardware in a dialect of basic where variable names were limited to 6 characters. Tokens were Rad-50 encoded, which would fit 6 characters into 2 16-bit words. That was the limitation. We still have a lot of those variable names floating around our "modern" code.

I once had to work ( a long time ago ) debugging a fairly big COBOL program written by an ex-assembler programmer who had named his WORKING-STORAGE fields after the Z80 registers and used these fields ( some type-redefined ) for anything and everything throughout the code.

@Norman P Folks that can write fortran in any language

- swap in cobol or assembler for fortran

000010 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
000020 PROGRAM-ID.       NORMAN-PEEVE.
000030 AUTHOR.               PETER JOB.
000040 DATE-WRITTEN.    25 JUNE 2016.
000050 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
000130 DATA DIVISION.
000250 WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
000260 01  WS-FIELD1     PIC X(13)      VALUE "COBOL FOREVER".
000320 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
000330 RUN-PROGRAM.
000340     DISPLAY WS-FIELD1 LINE 1 POSITION 1 ERASE.
000440     STOP RUN.

:P

Too much stuff in the trash! Both the digital and analog kind :P

When over 90% of all my "stuff" is only good for the trash...

Why don't you just have a manicure then :)