From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?
Date: 2000/07/18
Date: 2000-07-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v3BmZtJtGqjC@eisner.decus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 39750267.DAB18CC9@silver.jhuapl.edu
In article <39750267.DAB18CC9@silver.jhuapl.edu>, Scott Ingram` <scott@silver.jhuapl.edu> writes:
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> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
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>> In article <3974EE3D.1F8E016E@silver.jhuapl.edu>, 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.
In 2038, I am told, any 32-bit representations of a particular C
time format will start using the most significant bit. There are
some who suspect that existing implementations may treat this as
a signed number. There are others who claim that it should be a
signed number. The existence of the second group substantiates
the fears of the first group.
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2000-07-17 0:00 Customer balks at Ada -- any hope? mjsilva
2000-07-17 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-17 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2000-07-19 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-20 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-07-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18 0:00 ` wv12
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-26 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
2000-07-26 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
2000-07-26 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-07-26 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-07-27 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Kieran Mckey
2000-07-19 0:00 ` fdebruin
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Kieran Mckey
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?--Warning Significant Thread Drift Ahead Jeff Creem
2000-07-20 0:00 ` Kieran Mckey
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Customer balks at Ada -- any hope? mjsilva
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-18 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-07-18 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` nabbasi
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Rennie Allen
2000-07-19 0:00 ` nabbasi
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Philip Anderson
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-31 0:00 ` Harry Erwin
2000-07-31 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Rennie Allen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-07-20 0:00 ` Joseph C Williams
2000-07-21 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-24 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
2000-07-25 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-25 0:00 ` gdemont
2000-07-25 0:00 ` Gary Scott
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