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,f8c318eb567dfc20 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) Subject: Re: ada c c ++ software engineer Date: 1998/09/18 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 392249329 References: <6tpl2c$t$1@news.mainstreet.net> <1998Sep17.092746.1@eisner> Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <1998Sep17.092746.1@eisner> kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes: > > Estimated Ending Date 9/9/99 > > Permanent Position > One more proof that English is not a strongly typed language. Or that the company hasn't fixed it's year 2000 problems yet. The 9/9/99 idiom for indefinite expiration was used in many COBOL shops. -- Robert I. Eachus with Standard_Disclaimer; use Standard_Disclaimer; function Message (Text: in Clever_Ideas) return Better_Ideas is...