15 Sep
2015
15 Sep
'15
4:10 p.m.
On Sat, 12 Sep 2015, Norman Wilson wrote:
Today is The Day of the Programmer, being the
0x100'th day of the year.
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Are you sure you want to use that radix as your standard?
You risk putting a hex on our profession.
Guilty as charged, m'lud... First computer I programmed was a PDP-8 i.e.
octal, but that would've been in FOCAL or BASIC. My first hex was the
mighty IBM-360/50 (and I loathed EBCDIC ever since).
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."
I'll support shark-culling when they have been observed walking on dry land.