From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,37e6dbf5e31f6da0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: ff6c8,37e6dbf5e31f6da0 X-Google-Attributes: gidff6c8,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,37e6dbf5e31f6da0 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,37e6dbf5e31f6da0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,37e6dbf5e31f6da0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Software Engineering News Brief Date: 1996/11/05 Message-ID: <1996Nov5.111914.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 194652139 x-nntp-posting-host: eisner.decus.org references: <55dr50$ch1@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> <32805050.417820504@news> x-nntp-posting-user: KILGALLEN x-trace: 847210757/20863 organization: LJK Software newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.sw.components,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.edu Date: 1996-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <32805050.417820504@news>, davidb@datalytics.com (David Bradley) writes: > seic@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (Software Engineering News) wrote: > >>Ada applications aren't likely to fail any time between now and January 1, >>2000, or beyond, for the simple reason that Ada doesn't let programmers >>represent dates in two-digit shorthand. > > Seems rather restrictive. So you're saying that if I decide to code > up a julean type date and use only the last two digits of the year, > that's impossible to do in Ada? So as a user, I have to always type > the four digit year? This is unecessary in most cases. As the first > two digits can be determined with some intelligent logic. No, Ada, like many other environments tries to lead one in the direction of avoiding the century problem, but one can always choose not to follow. As a matter of fact, one can even encode years using only a single digit, but that is more hazardous as there is increased chance of being at the same employer when everything falls apart. Larry Kilgallen