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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ebbccbc114d641e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-23 06:35:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3BD498DF.27E8B66C@otelco.net> Subject: Re: Genealogy Software Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 09:34:39 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:34:39 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15071 Date: 2001-10-23T13:34:39+00:00 List-Id: In article <3BD498DF.27E8B66C@otelco.net>, Larry Hazel says... > >Ada 83. Will need some way to represent dates going back hundreds of years >(maybe just a fixed length string since some of them will be of the form "ca. >1784"). Will need a person object (maybe abstract with separate child types I remember several threads here from days of yore about the proper way to represent dates going back hundreds or thousands of years. It might be worth hitting the archive on groups.google.com and looking for them. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.