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: 103376,577c9f9c0cdd76d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ehud Lamm Subject: Re: Confusing language, was Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing Date: 1999/11/09 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 546605116 References: <7vqgs2$lcc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38233108.F3540F0@ebox.tninet.se> <806716$i6c2@ftp.kvaerner.com> <807109$8m0$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38270DC7.86553BB1@pwfl.com> <38288BD4.36352ACB@mitre.org> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.huji.ac.il X-Trace: news.huji.ac.il 942181463 10346 132.64.178.45 (9 Nov 1999 21:04:23 GMT) Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Nov 1999 21:04:23 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-09T21:04:23+00:00 List-Id: I know of many similiar examples. I never claimed there is no problem... I think we agree on the terminological aspect. The issue of coexistence, which is implied by your story is one of the interesting sources of problems. To continue in this anecdotal vain, which is of course off topic, I can tell you the IBM had special features added to some products so that log files will work with two digit, and four digit years - in the same time - so that production systems will not be shutdown.[1] This was esp. important for systems that are spread over so many time zones, that the system works all hours of the day. The sun never sets - like the British Empire. [1] An example of such a product: IMS. Ehud Lamm mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ehudlamm <== My home on the web Check it out and subscribe to the E-List- for interesting essays and more!