3 Feb
2021
3 Feb
'21
1:11 a.m.
On Tue, 2 Feb 2021, Larry McVoy wrote:
I've dealt with this, here is a story of a super
computer where native
pointers pointed at bits but C pointers pointed at bytes and you can
shake your head at the promotion problems:
https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2017-September/012050.html
Holy smoking inodes! I'd forgotten that story... And yes, I really was
approached by Pr1me, and really did turn them down on the basis that if
they thought that "1" was prime then what else did they get wrong?[*]
Oh, they went belly-up shortly afterwards, so it was probably just as well
(plainly the innumerate marketoids were in charge).
[*]
If you assume that "1" is prime then it breaks all sorts of higher (and
obscure) maths.
-- Dave