Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!karl From: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: C News patch of 7-Sep-1990 Message-ID: Date: 26 Sep 90 15:41:45 GMT References: <1990Sep18.222450.25228@zoo.toronto.edu> <15864@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <1990Sep23.182243.24772@sq.sq.com> Reply-To: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation Lines: 12 In article <1990Sep23.182243.24772@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes: >> 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. That's why we use 19900801 at sugar. The year 2000 is getting pretty close. Granted, 19900801-style is only good for 8000-odd more years, BWTF. -- -- uunet!ficc!karl (wk), uunet!sugar!karl (hm) "The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs." -- Joseph Weizenbaum