This is the second of a two part article describing an experiment carried out during the 2004 ACCU conference. The previous part was published in the previous issue of C Vu. This second part discusses how the if statement part of the problem affected subject performance.

This article reports on an experimental study, carried out during the 2004 ACCU conference, that investigates the consequences of a limited capacity short term memory on subjects' performance in some of the tasks needed to comprehend short sequences of code.

This article is not going into the realm of how characters are represented and conversions between character representations, instead the interaction between different string implementations are investigated.

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