A Date With Tim Peters...

Lloyd Zusman ljz at asfast.com
Thu Dec 2 13:16:23 EST 1999


jlouder at wfu.edu (Joe  Louderback) writes:

> Phil Mayes (nospam at bitbucket.com) wrote:
> > David N. Welton wrote in message <87puwpg7kp.fsf at freddy.page.street>...
> > 
> > > Doesn't the new millenium actually start in 2001?
> >
> > Only for FORTRAN programmers.  Python and C programmers, being zero-based,
> > get to celebrate a year earlier.
> 
> To be fair, we Fortran programmers can start arrays with any index, so even
> the 4 BC problem can be solved ;-)

But can you cause FORTRAN to think that there is no integer between
-1 and +1?  :)


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 Lloyd Zusman
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