From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 00:10:14 +1000 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Happy Programmers' Day! In-Reply-To: <1442094566.302.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> References: <1442094566.302.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> Message-ID: On Sat, 12 Sep 2015, Norman Wilson wrote: > Today is The Day of the Programmer, being the 0x100'th day of the year. > > === > > 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.