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Re: CGI question
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Fri, 7 Apr 2000 16:40:34 GMT
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JSPROAT@IOavoidspam.COM
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Matthew Miller wrote:
> Javascript story: I just came across someone the other day who was mad
> because he had to "covert all his equal signs into double-equals so they'd
> work with netscape". Hrm. Not exactly confidence-inspiring, that.
I had a C programming class in college with this woman who was upset that
"MOVE TO" and "MULTIPLY BY" weren't part of the C language. The moment she
said that, an eerie silence fell over the classroom...
The punchline is that two years later, she was making more money than any of
us, doing Y2K fixes.
Cheers,
- jsproat
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
Card-carrying member of the Star-Bellied Sneech Preservation Society
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| (...) Scary bit of COBOL code one of my co-workers ran across today (he was given the code because it's the closest thing to documentation available for a file he has to deal with): IF FLD_XYZ_YR < 29 THEN FLD_XYZ_YR4 = 2000 + FLD_XYZ_YR4 ELSE (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Javascript story: I just came across someone the other day who was mad because he had to "covert all his equal signs into double-equals so they'd work with netscape". Hrm. Not exactly confidence-inspiring, that. (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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