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I added a warning for it in my C compiler back in the mid 1980s.

Fun story. A friend of mine (Eric Engstrom!) bought himself a backhoe. I'd never driven one before and he offered to let me drive it. Sure!

The clutch pedal works backwards from that in a car. Press on the clutch to engage it, release the pedal to disengage it. After some struggling with my reflexes being all wrong, I came within a couple feet of taking out the side of his barn - by switching off the key.

There was nothing wrong with that user interface, other than being insane.




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