On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 10:27 PM, bch <bch.itbgcthate at gmail.com> wrote: > And of course, a programmer cannot tell the difference between > Halloween and Christmas day. Well known, of course. But a lot of modern programmers don't speak octal, they only use another power-of-two base; it's as though someone's cast a hex on them. Chris Angelico