Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?

[dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 21:20:39 -0400, Scott Ingram` <scott@silver.jhuapl.edu> wrote:
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>Larry Kilgallen wrote:
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>> Scott Ingram` <scott@silver.jhuapl.edu> writes:
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>> > We now move to the "warranty" domain, can you warrant that C will
>> > be around in 25 years?
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>> Ok, if the answer is yes, how about 38 years ?
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>Larry,
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>I hope you have a reason that 38 would be a significant number?
>As I noted in another thread, I have little formal training in anything...and I
>am way too lazy to do any math in a motel room.

2038 is when the number of seconds since the start of time (Jan 1, 1970) 
overflows a 32 bit counter. Many systems using a time_t that is 32 bits
will fail at that time. Most Unix's are gradually switching to 64 bit systems
and changing time_t to be 64 bits at that time. 

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