🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <19...@paperboy.OSF.ORG> s...@mysteron.osf.org (Simon Patience) writes:
>
>	I worked with someone who worked on the FORTRAN compiler. He made
>	it so that during the two weeks prior to christmas, on even numbered
>	hours and when seconds equal minutes, the compiler printed "Merry
>	Christmas" on the screen when it was invoked. Of course it was
>	completely unreproducable but the complaints of "Undergraduate humour"
>	came in pretty quickly from one of the defence related establishments
>	so it was taken out after the first festive season :-(

This reminds me: remember in the 60's and 70's when we realized that, yes,
Virginia, the 20th century WILL give way to the 21st, and EVERY DATE ROUTINE
EVER WRITTEN WILL FAIL?

All those hard-coded '19' followed by a PIC 99 or XX field.

I always thought that you could really make a bundle, starting in about 1990,
with a company that did nothing but fixed all date routines, so the world
wouldn't end on Jan 1, 2000.

Unfortunately, I think date routines got smarter over the years :-(  :-).


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