Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!sq!msb
From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: C News patch of 7-Sep-1990
Message-ID: <1990Sep23.182243.24772@sq.sq.com>
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
References: <1990Sep18.222450.25228@zoo.toronto.edu> <15864@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <EMV.90Sep20173241@picasso.math.lsa.umich.edu>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 90 18:22:43 GMT
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> Only argument that I have against the patch scheme is that the 
> files that contain the patches don't sort in date order.  The
> Ohio State way of naming the same files (900801 instead of 01-Aug-90)
> works much better that way.

No it doesn't, if they only use 2 digits for the year.  It merely
gets people *used* to lexical sorting giving date order, then blows up.

-- 
Mark Brader		   "I don't care HOW you format   char c; while ((c =
SoftQuad Inc., Toronto	    getchar()) != EOF) putchar(c);   ... this code is a
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com    bug waiting to happen from the outset." --Doug Gwyn

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