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: 103376,63ceef1cf4561e32 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope? Date: 2000/07/18 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 648025192 References: <8l01s4$gnr$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3974A1D5.1F9AA2E5@Raytheon.com> <3974EE3D.1F8E016E@silver.jhuapl.edu> <39750267.DAB18CC9@silver.jhuapl.edu> X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 963971563 216.44.122.34 (Wed, 19 Jul 2000 01:52:43 GMT) Organization: LJK Software NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 01:52:43 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-07-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <39750267.DAB18CC9@silver.jhuapl.edu>, Scott Ingram` writes: > > > Larry Kilgallen wrote: > >> In article <3974EE3D.1F8E016E@silver.jhuapl.edu>, Scott Ingram` writes: >> >> > We now move to the "warranty" domain, can you warrant that C will >> > be around in 25 years? >> >> Ok, if the answer is yes, how about 38 years ? > > Larry, > > 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.