jwz@teak.berkeley.edu (Jamie Zawinski) (05/03/90)
So here I am sitting in front of my totally high tech Lisp machine, filling out this month's time sheet. I have to write "8" in every slot except the ones representing weekends and holidays. The time sheet isn't month-specific, so I have to figure out where the weekends fell. So I want to do (time:print-universal-date (time:parse-universal-time "1 mar 90")) to find out what day the first was; except I don't remember the name of time:print-universal-date, so I edit the definition of time:print-universal-time since I know they're in the same file. Great, I cross out all the weekends, and fill the rest with 8's. Then I want a total. So I count the number of 8's, hit Break, and type (* 8 22); it gives me 260; I write it down. Only by a chance glance at last month's time sheet did I notice that that was almost twice as high as it should have been. The source file for the time functions was in base 8. 260(8) = 176(10). The damn thing costs 40k and it doesn't know how to add. If our hearts are pure, we can eradicate octal in our time!! -- Jamie
cooleyra@clutx.clarkson.edu (pixel,c108,,) (05/05/90)
From article <24681@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, by jwz@teak.berkeley.edu (Jamie Zawinski): > > So here I am sitting in front of my totally high tech Lisp > [...] > Only by a chance glance at last month's time sheet did I notice that > that was almost twice as high as it should have been. The source > file for the time functions was in base 8. 260(8) = 176(10). > > The damn thing costs 40k and it doesn't know how to add. Hah. Get a new language. One that knows a better language than Lisp. Say, LOGO, maybe. > If our hearts are pure, we can eradicate octal in our time!! > > -- Jamie Peeve #218: Stupid flames of peeves that are just flame-bait in and of themselves. Peeve #219: Recursive peeves (cf peeve # 219) ----- Pixel rick cooley, sablelover cooleyra@clutx. clarkson.edu | bitnet "Nothing can stop him. Not even common sense." --Mark Komarinski "Yeah..arrgh." --Steven Walsh. (corrected by his roommate)